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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 169 118
Rank change year-on-year +121 -51 -64
Permanent jobs citing Validation 264 120 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.67% 1.20% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 1.53% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 51 42 65
10th Percentile - £34,000 £32,855
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,150
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.12% +13.37%
75th Percentile £66,875 £53,750 £64,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £61,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%

All Process and 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 4,820 7,833 5,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.22% 78.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 4,102 3,891
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Validation 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 September 2025. 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
East Midlands +109 209 £42,500 -5.56% 45
West Midlands +14 55 £55,000 +10.00% 92
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.52%) CMS
1 4 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.27%) Simulink
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.65%) AWS
1 7 (2.65%) Azure
2 6 (2.27%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.52%) GCP
3 4 (1.52%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.14%) AWS KMS
4 3 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (0.76%) dbt
5 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
5 2 (0.76%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.76%) SaaS
6 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.38%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 179 (67.80%) 5G
1 179 (67.80%) Bluetooth
1 179 (67.80%) GSM
1 179 (67.80%) LTE
1 179 (67.80%) UMTS
1 179 (67.80%) Wi-Fi
1 179 (67.80%) Wireless
2 12 (4.55%) Ethernet
2 12 (4.55%) Modbus
2 12 (4.55%) Profibus
3 4 (1.52%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.52%) Firewall
4 2 (0.76%) DHCP
4 2 (0.76%) DNS
4 2 (0.76%) Internet
4 2 (0.76%) MPLS
4 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
5 1 (0.38%) NAS
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.92%) Tableau
2 10 (3.79%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.27%) Power BI
4 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.52%) Big Data
6 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.76%) Metadata
7 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.76%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.38%) MySQL
8 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.89%) Selenium
3 4 (1.52%) Git
4 3 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.14%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.38%) TestRail
General
1 195 (73.86%) Electronics
2 25 (9.47%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.92%) Finance
5 12 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.79%) Automotive
6 10 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.41%) Retail
8 7 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Law
10 3 (1.14%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.76%) Avionics
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Billing
11 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 180 (68.18%) Test Engineer
2 179 (67.80%) Electronics Engineer
2 179 (67.80%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 24 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (4.92%) Analyst
5 12 (4.55%) Control Systems Engineer
5 12 (4.55%) Lead
6 9 (3.41%) Data Analyst
6 9 (3.41%) Data Quality Analyst
6 9 (3.41%) Quality Analyst
7 7 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (2.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 6 (2.27%) Development Engineer
8 6 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.27%) Senior
8 6 (2.27%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (2.27%) Software Engineer
9 3 (1.14%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (1.14%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.14%) PySpark
2 2 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.76%) NumPy
2 2 (0.76%) Pandas
3 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.38%) Kafka
3 1 (0.38%) Playwright
3 1 (0.38%) Plotly
3 1 (0.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.38%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 179 (67.80%) Driving Licence
2 15 (5.68%) SCADA
3 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.76%) Replication
5 2 (0.76%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.55%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Linux
3 3 (1.14%) VMS
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (73.11%) Mentoring
2 186 (70.45%) Verification and Validation
3 181 (68.56%) Coaching
3 181 (68.56%) Test Strategy
4 180 (68.18%) Customer Requirements
5 25 (9.47%) Agile
6 17 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (6.44%) Data Validation
7 16 (6.06%) Data Cleansing
7 16 (6.06%) Systems Engineering
8 15 (5.68%) Mechatronics
8 15 (5.68%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (5.68%) Risk Assessment
9 14 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (4.92%) Migration
11 12 (4.55%) Visualisation
12 11 (4.17%) Data Visualisation
13 10 (3.79%) ERP
14 9 (3.41%) Test Automation
15 8 (3.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.20%) Python
2 18 (6.82%) SQL
3 12 (4.55%) Ladder Logic
4 6 (2.27%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.14%) Bash
5 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.76%) Groovy
6 2 (0.76%) Java
6 2 (0.76%) Perl
6 2 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.38%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (76.89%) Degree
2 180 (68.18%) HND
3 14 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.52%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.76%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.79%) QA
3 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.52%) NCSC
4 3 (1.14%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.14%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) COSHH
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.38%) Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.89%) Ansible
2 3 (1.14%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.14%) Grafana
2 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.76%) Puppet
3 2 (0.76%) SCOM
4 1 (0.38%) Kibana
4 1 (0.38%) logstash
4 1 (0.38%) Oozie
Vendors
1 12 (4.55%) Allen-Bradley
1 12 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 12 (4.55%) Rockwell
1 12 (4.55%) Siemens
2 10 (3.79%) SAP
3 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.52%) Databricks
5 3 (1.14%) Juniper
5 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.76%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.76%) IBM
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.76%) Splunk
7 1 (0.38%) BMC
7 1 (0.38%) BT
7 1 (0.38%) Civica
7 1 (0.38%) Informatica
7 1 (0.38%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.38%) Remedy