Validation Job Trends in the Midlands

Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 38 171
Rank change year-on-year -70 +133 -76
Permanent jobs citing Validation 166 295 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 5.55% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 6.39% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 112 62 79
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,000 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% -8.41%
75th Percentile £58,125 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,907 - £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,752 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.09% +3.19% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,979 4,617 10,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.67% 86.88% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,341 2,705 7,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Validation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Validation

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -5 96 £44,000 -29.60% 64
East Midlands -72 68 £30,000 -36.84% 61
Validation
England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 17 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.81%) Solid Edge
3 3 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.20%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.60%) CATIA
5 1 (0.60%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.60%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.87%) Power Platform
2 13 (7.83%) Azure
3 10 (6.02%) Serverless
4 8 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.01%) AWS
6 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.81%) GCP
8 3 (1.81%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.81%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.81%) SaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) Datadog
9 2 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Wireless
2 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.41%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.41%) Broadband
3 4 (2.41%) MQTT
3 4 (2.41%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.81%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.81%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.20%) Firewall
5 2 (1.20%) Modbus
5 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.20%) SMS
5 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.60%) IPsec
6 1 (0.60%) LAN
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.60%) WebEx
6 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.87%) Power BI
2 13 (7.83%) Tableau
3 7 (4.22%) Metadata
4 6 (3.61%) Power Query
5 3 (1.81%) MySQL
5 3 (1.81%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.20%) DTS
6 2 (1.20%) Looker
6 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Snyk
2 9 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.82%) GitLab
4 7 (4.22%) Git
5 6 (3.61%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.61%) Selenium
6 5 (3.01%) JIRA
6 5 (3.01%) JMeter
7 4 (2.41%) GDB
7 4 (2.41%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.41%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.81%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.81%) Gatling
8 3 (1.81%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.81%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.81%) Postman
8 3 (1.81%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.20%) Locust
9 2 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.86%) Finance
4 18 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (9.64%) Manufacturing
6 15 (9.04%) Banking
7 11 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (6.02%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.82%) Retail
10 7 (4.22%) Electronics
11 6 (3.61%) Games
12 4 (2.41%) iGaming
12 4 (2.41%) Marketing
13 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.20%) Automotive
14 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.87%) Senior
2 23 (13.86%) Analyst
3 16 (9.64%) Data Scientist
3 16 (9.64%) Developer
4 14 (8.43%) Statistician
5 12 (7.23%) Lead
6 10 (6.02%) Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Cloud Security Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.02%) Junior
6 10 (6.02%) Security Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Senior Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Senior Security Architect
6 10 (6.02%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) Administrator
8 8 (4.82%) QA Specialist
8 8 (4.82%) Validation Specialist
9 7 (4.22%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.61%) Playwright
2 4 (2.41%) pytest
2 4 (2.41%) Unity DI Container
2 4 (2.41%) Yocto
3 3 (1.81%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.81%) REST
3 3 (1.81%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.20%) .NET
4 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.20%) OpenCV
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.20%) Pandas
4 2 (1.20%) RESTful
4 2 (1.20%) XML
5 1 (0.60%) EDI
5 1 (0.60%) JSON
5 1 (0.60%) React
5 1 (0.60%) Spring
5 1 (0.60%) XSLT
5 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Data Centre
1 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.82%) NHS
3 7 (4.22%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (4.22%) IoT
4 6 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.61%) ARM Cortex
4 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.01%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.41%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.81%) Robotics
7 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.20%) CSOC
8 2 (1.20%) CUDA
8 2 (1.20%) Lidar
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Android
3 4 (2.41%) Windows
4 3 (1.81%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (22.89%) AI
3 34 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (18.67%) Decision-Making
5 30 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (15.06%) CI/CD
7 24 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
7 24 (14.46%) Risk Management
8 23 (13.86%) Computer Science
9 22 (13.25%) Agile
9 22 (13.25%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (12.05%) Analytics
10 20 (12.05%) Test Automation
11 19 (11.45%) Data Analysis
11 19 (11.45%) Data Science
11 19 (11.45%) Statistics
12 18 (10.84%) Machine Learning
12 18 (10.84%) Roadmaps
13 16 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (9.64%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.89%) Python
1 38 (22.89%) SQL
2 10 (6.02%) C++
2 10 (6.02%) Java
3 9 (5.42%) C
4 6 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.41%) Bash
5 4 (2.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.81%) VBA
7 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.60%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.60%) Groovy
8 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.60%) R
8 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (21.08%) Degree
2 13 (7.83%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.82%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.81%) CISA
7 3 (1.81%) HND
8 2 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.20%) HNC
8 2 (1.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 23 (13.86%) QA
3 10 (6.02%) GRC
4 7 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.41%) GDPR
6 4 (2.41%) ISO 9001
6 4 (2.41%) JTAG
7 3 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.20%) IEC 61508
8 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.20%) MISRA
8 2 (1.20%) MISRA C
8 2 (1.20%) SLA
8 2 (1.20%) WCAG
9 1 (0.60%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.60%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.60%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.61%) Firmware
3 4 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.01%) Grafana
2 4 (2.41%) Terraform
3 3 (1.81%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.20%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) CrowdStrike
2 10 (6.02%) Palo Alto
2 10 (6.02%) Tenable
3 7 (4.22%) SAP
4 6 (3.61%) Cisco
4 6 (3.61%) Oracle
5 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.81%) Veracode
7 2 (1.20%) Databricks
7 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.20%) Google
8 1 (0.60%) Apple
8 1 (0.60%) Aruba
8 1 (0.60%) Ekahau
8 1 (0.60%) Juniper
8 1 (0.60%) Meraki
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype