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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 198 100
Rank change year-on-year +101 -98 -45
Permanent jobs citing Validation 150 68 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.68% 0.76% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 0.94% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46 36 70
10th Percentile £36,875 £34,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,681
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,438 £53,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £75,900 £58,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,265 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.48% -12.00% +4.17%

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 4,814 7,209 4,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.03% 81.10% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,910 3,266 3,675
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,104 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% +4.21% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,050 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 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 +86 101 £42,500 -10.53% 41
West Midlands +39 49 £55,000 +10.00% 78
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.67%) CMS
1 4 (2.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.00%) AWS
1 6 (4.00%) Azure
2 4 (2.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (2.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (2.00%) dbt
3 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (1.33%) GCP
4 2 (1.33%) GitHub
4 2 (1.33%) SaaS
4 2 (1.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.67%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.67%) OCI
5 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (50.00%) 5G
1 75 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 75 (50.00%) GSM
1 75 (50.00%) LTE
1 75 (50.00%) UMTS
1 75 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 75 (50.00%) Wireless
2 10 (6.67%) Ethernet
2 10 (6.67%) Modbus
2 10 (6.67%) Profibus
3 4 (2.67%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.67%) Firewall
4 2 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (1.33%) MPLS
5 1 (0.67%) Broadband
5 1 (0.67%) NAS
5 1 (0.67%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.00%) Tableau
2 10 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.67%) Power BI
4 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.33%) Big Data
5 2 (1.33%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) HBase
6 1 (0.67%) MySQL
6 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.67%) QlikView
6 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (6.00%) JIRA
2 6 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (3.33%) Git
4 3 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.00%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.67%) JMeter
6 1 (0.67%) JUnit
6 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.67%) Locust
6 1 (0.67%) Postman
6 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.67%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 88 (58.67%) Electronics
2 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.33%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.67%) Finance
6 11 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.33%) Retail
8 4 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.33%) Automotive
9 2 (1.33%) Avionics
9 2 (1.33%) Back Office
9 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (50.67%) Test Engineer
2 75 (50.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 75 (50.00%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 17 (11.33%) Analyst
3 17 (11.33%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (7.33%) Data Analyst
5 10 (6.67%) Control Systems Engineer
5 10 (6.67%) Lead
6 9 (6.00%) Data Quality Analyst
6 9 (6.00%) Quality Analyst
7 4 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (2.67%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.00%) IT Analyst
8 3 (2.00%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (2.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 3 (2.00%) Requirements Manager
8 3 (2.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.33%) PySpark
2 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.67%) JSON
2 1 (0.67%) Kafka
2 1 (0.67%) NumPy
2 1 (0.67%) Pandas
2 1 (0.67%) Playwright
2 1 (0.67%) Plotly
2 1 (0.67%) Regular Expression
2 1 (0.67%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) Shiny
2 1 (0.67%) SOAP
2 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.67%) SCADA
3 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.33%) Replication
5 2 (1.33%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.00%) VMS
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (57.33%) Verification and Validation
2 84 (56.00%) Mentoring
3 79 (52.67%) Test Strategy
4 78 (52.00%) Coaching
5 76 (50.67%) Customer Requirements
6 19 (12.67%) Agile
6 19 (12.67%) Migration
7 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (12.00%) Data Validation
8 15 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
8 15 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (8.00%) ERP
9 12 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
9 12 (8.00%) Visualisation
10 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.33%) Mechatronics
11 10 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
11 10 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (5.33%) Data Migration
12 8 (5.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.00%) SQL
2 18 (12.00%) Python
3 10 (6.67%) Ladder Logic
4 3 (2.00%) Java
4 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.33%) Groovy
5 2 (1.33%) R
6 1 (0.67%) Bash
6 1 (0.67%) C++
6 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.67%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (67.33%) Degree
2 76 (50.67%) HND
3 11 (7.33%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.33%) QA
3 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (2.67%) NCSC
5 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.67%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.67%) COSHH
7 1 (0.67%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.67%) PMO
7 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
2 2 (1.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.67%) Grafana
1 4 (2.67%) Terraform
2 3 (2.00%) Ansible
2 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.67%) Kibana
3 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) logstash
3 1 (0.67%) Oozie
Vendors
1 13 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.67%) Allen-Bradley
2 10 (6.67%) Rockwell
2 10 (6.67%) SAP
2 10 (6.67%) Siemens
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle
4 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.00%) IBM
5 3 (2.00%) Juniper
6 2 (1.33%) Databricks
6 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) BT
7 1 (0.67%) Civica
7 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.67%) IFS
7 1 (0.67%) Magma
7 1 (0.67%) Remedy
7 1 (0.67%) Tanium
7 1 (0.67%) Tenable
7 1 (0.67%) Zscaler