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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 39 125
Rank change year-on-year -79 +86 -42
Permanent jobs citing Validation 155 300 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.19% 5.90% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 6.59% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 106 59 101
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,125 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £68,000 - £67,500
England median annual salary £59,490 £55,149 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.87% +0.27% -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 9,438 4,553 9,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.29% 89.52% 81.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,726 2,550 7,144
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £34,959
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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

Validation
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

Validation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Validation in the Midlands

Validation
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 16 May 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 -15 100 £44,000 -32.31% 55
East Midlands -96 53 £30,000 -42.31% 39
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 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.94%) Solid Edge
3 3 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.29%) CATIA
4 2 (1.29%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.65%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.65%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.65%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.19%) Power Platform
2 12 (7.74%) Azure
3 10 (6.45%) Serverless
4 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.87%) SaaS
5 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.58%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.94%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.29%) AWS
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.29%) Datadog
8 2 (1.29%) dbt
8 2 (1.29%) GCP
8 2 (1.29%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.29%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) Broadband
2 3 (1.94%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.94%) Wireless
3 2 (1.29%) Bluetooth
3 2 (1.29%) HTTP
3 2 (1.29%) Modbus
3 2 (1.29%) MQTT
3 2 (1.29%) SMS
3 2 (1.29%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) IPsec
4 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.65%) WebEx
4 1 (0.65%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.19%) Power BI
2 10 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (5.16%) Tableau
4 7 (4.52%) Metadata
5 6 (3.87%) Power Query
6 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.29%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.29%) Looker
8 1 (0.65%) DTS
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Snyk
2 8 (5.16%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (4.52%) Selenium
4 6 (3.87%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.87%) Git
4 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.23%) GitLab
5 5 (3.23%) JMeter
6 4 (2.58%) JIRA
6 4 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.94%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.94%) Gatling
7 3 (1.94%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.94%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.94%) Postman
7 3 (1.94%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.29%) GDB
8 2 (1.29%) Locust
8 2 (1.29%) TestRail
General
1 35 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.61%) Manufacturing
4 17 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.45%) Law
6 8 (5.16%) Games
7 7 (4.52%) Marketing
7 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.87%) Electronics
8 6 (3.87%) Finance
8 6 (3.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.23%) Retail
10 4 (2.58%) iGaming
10 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Automotive
11 3 (1.94%) Banking
11 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (20.65%) Analyst
1 32 (20.65%) Senior
2 22 (14.19%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (12.90%) Junior
4 15 (9.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 14 (9.03%) Junior Analyst
6 13 (8.39%) Support Analyst
7 11 (7.10%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Cloud Security Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Junior Support Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Oracle Payroll Support
8 10 (6.45%) Oracle Support Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Security Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.52%) Playwright
2 3 (1.94%) Node.js
2 3 (1.94%) React
2 3 (1.94%) REST
2 3 (1.94%) Vue
3 2 (1.29%) CSS
3 2 (1.29%) Deno
3 2 (1.29%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.29%) HTML
3 2 (1.29%) Laravel
3 2 (1.29%) OpenCV
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.29%) Pandas
3 2 (1.29%) pytest
3 2 (1.29%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.29%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (1.29%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.29%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (1.29%) Yii
3 2 (1.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.58%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (2.58%) NHS
4 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.94%) Robotics
4 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.29%) CSOC
5 2 (1.29%) CUDA
5 2 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.29%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.29%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.29%) IoT
5 2 (1.29%) Lidar
5 2 (1.29%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.29%) PKI
5 2 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.29%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Kali Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Android
3 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (1.29%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (16.77%) AI
3 24 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (14.84%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (14.84%) CI/CD
5 22 (14.19%) Systems Engineering
5 22 (14.19%) Verification and Validation
6 21 (13.55%) Data Validation
6 21 (13.55%) Decision-Making
7 19 (12.26%) Computer Science
7 19 (12.26%) Process Improvement
8 18 (11.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 17 (10.97%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (10.97%) SDLC
10 15 (9.68%) Analytics
10 15 (9.68%) Security Testing
11 14 (9.03%) Agile
11 14 (9.03%) End-to-End Testing
11 14 (9.03%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.68%) SQL
2 21 (13.55%) Python
3 8 (5.16%) C++
4 7 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.87%) C
5 6 (3.87%) Java
6 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.94%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.94%) VBA
8 2 (1.29%) Bash
8 2 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.29%) PHP
8 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (21.29%) Degree
2 20 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (7.10%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) CISA
6 3 (1.94%) HND
6 3 (1.94%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.29%) HNC
7 2 (1.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) QA
2 20 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 17 (10.97%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 10 (6.45%) GRC
5 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.87%) GDPR
6 3 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.29%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.29%) JTAG
7 2 (1.29%) MISRA
7 2 (1.29%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.29%) SLA
7 2 (1.29%) WCAG
8 1 (0.65%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.65%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.58%) Firmware
3 3 (1.94%) Docker
4 2 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Grafana
2 4 (2.58%) Terraform
3 3 (1.94%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.94%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.29%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.03%) Oracle
3 10 (6.45%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (6.45%) Palo Alto
3 10 (6.45%) Tenable
4 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.58%) SAP
5 3 (1.94%) Veracode
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco
6 2 (1.29%) Databricks
6 2 (1.29%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) Apple
7 1 (0.65%) Aruba
7 1 (0.65%) Ekahau
7 1 (0.65%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.65%) Juniper
7 1 (0.65%) Meraki
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype