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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 59 186
Rank change year-on-year -13 +127 -68
Permanent jobs citing Validation 327 258 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.08% 4.67% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 5.37% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 178 46 38
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £58,825
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

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 11,153 4,803 7,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.96% 86.87% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 2,802 3,427
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -9.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +48 177 £45,000 -18.18% 105
East Midlands -39 150 £50,000 +17.65% 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.67%) CMS
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.36%) OrCAD
3 9 (2.75%) Notion
3 9 (2.75%) Simulink
3 9 (2.75%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.92%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.31%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.14%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.61%) Maximo
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (11.31%) Power Platform
2 29 (8.87%) Azure
3 14 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.67%) GitHub
5 10 (3.06%) AWS
6 9 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.53%) GCP
7 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.22%) Serverless
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle CX
9 3 (0.92%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.61%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.40%) Modbus
2 19 (5.81%) VLAN
3 18 (5.50%) OSPF
4 14 (4.28%) Ethernet
4 14 (4.28%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.98%) VPN
6 12 (3.67%) DMZ
6 12 (3.67%) IPv4
7 9 (2.75%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.14%) LAN
8 7 (2.14%) WAN
8 7 (2.14%) Wireless
9 6 (1.83%) BGP
9 6 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.83%) MQTT
9 6 (1.83%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.83%) ZigBee
10 5 (1.53%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.01%) Power BI
2 12 (3.67%) Tableau
3 7 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (1.22%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.22%) GIS
4 4 (1.22%) Parquet
4 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.92%) Metadata
5 3 (0.92%) MySQL
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) Db2
6 2 (0.61%) DTS
6 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (6.73%) Git
2 15 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.98%) GitLab
4 12 (3.67%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.06%) JIRA
6 9 (2.75%) Eclipse
7 6 (1.83%) GDB
8 5 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.53%) JMeter
8 5 (1.53%) Selenium
9 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.22%) Postman
9 4 (1.22%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.22%) Snyk
9 4 (1.22%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (26.91%) Analytical Skills
2 86 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 75 (22.94%) Manufacturing
4 70 (21.41%) Electronics
5 66 (20.18%) Finance
6 50 (15.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.42%) Banking
7 21 (6.42%) Marketing
7 21 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (6.12%) Retail
8 20 (6.12%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.59%) Aerospace
9 15 (4.59%) Public Sector
10 14 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (3.36%) Automotive
12 10 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.45%) French Language
14 5 (1.53%) Law
14 5 (1.53%) Military
15 4 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (12.84%) Senior
2 37 (11.31%) Automation Engineer
3 35 (10.70%) Lead
4 24 (7.34%) Analyst
5 21 (6.42%) Design Engineer
6 20 (6.12%) Electronics Engineer
7 19 (5.81%) Developer
8 17 (5.20%) Data Scientist
9 16 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Electrical Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Embedded Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Test Engineer
11 14 (4.28%) Statistician
12 13 (3.98%) Architect
12 13 (3.98%) Control Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.98%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 12 (3.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.06%) Consultant
14 10 (3.06%) Performance Manager
14 10 (3.06%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.67%) XML
2 7 (2.14%) .NET
3 6 (1.83%) Terraform
3 6 (1.83%) Yocto
4 4 (1.22%) Blazor
4 4 (1.22%) Django
4 4 (1.22%) EDI
4 4 (1.22%) Playwright
4 4 (1.22%) PySpark
4 4 (1.22%) pytest
4 4 (1.22%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (1.22%) YAML
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.92%) REST
5 3 (0.92%) RESTful
6 2 (0.61%) JSON
6 2 (0.61%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.61%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.61%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.61%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.46%) SCADA
2 28 (8.56%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.42%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.67%) IoT
6 11 (3.36%) Robotics
7 10 (3.06%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.06%) NHS
8 9 (2.75%) Client/Server
8 9 (2.75%) FMCG
9 8 (2.45%) Analogue Electronics
9 8 (2.45%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.83%) ARM Cortex
10 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.83%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.53%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.81%) Linux
2 6 (1.83%) Android
2 6 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.92%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (31.80%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (17.74%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (16.21%) Customer Requirements
5 50 (15.29%) Computer Science
6 48 (14.68%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (14.07%) Agile
8 45 (13.76%) Test Automation
9 44 (13.46%) AI
10 37 (11.31%) Verification and Validation
11 36 (11.01%) CI/CD
11 36 (11.01%) Decision-Making
12 35 (10.70%) Risk Management
13 33 (10.09%) Data Modelling
14 32 (9.79%) Data Science
15 31 (9.48%) Analytics
15 31 (9.48%) ERP
15 31 (9.48%) Software Testing
16 28 (8.56%) Migration
16 28 (8.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.74%) SQL
2 56 (17.13%) Python
3 21 (6.42%) C
4 19 (5.81%) Java
5 11 (3.36%) C++
5 11 (3.36%) Embedded C
6 9 (2.75%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.53%) Bash
8 5 (1.53%) C#
9 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (36.09%) Degree
2 45 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.65%) Master's Degree
5 15 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.28%) HND
7 12 (3.67%) HNC
8 8 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.45%) PMP
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.61%) ACCA
10 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.61%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.61%) CIMA
10 2 (0.61%) CISA
10 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.54%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.34%) QA
3 14 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.67%) GDPR
5 7 (2.14%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.83%) GRC
6 6 (1.83%) JTAG
7 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.61%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.31%) GAMP
10 1 (0.31%) GMP
10 1 (0.31%) GxP
10 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (8.87%) Firmware
2 20 (6.12%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (2.14%) Docker
4 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.53%) Ansible
3 3 (0.92%) Grafana
3 3 (0.92%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.31%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.03%) Salesforce
3 22 (6.73%) EMC
4 13 (3.98%) Oracle
5 12 (3.67%) Adobe
5 12 (3.67%) Cisco
5 12 (3.67%) Samsung
5 12 (3.67%) TikTok
6 8 (2.45%) Cadence
6 8 (2.45%) SAP
7 7 (2.14%) Infor
8 4 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.22%) Siemens
8 4 (1.22%) Tenable
9 3 (0.92%) Google
9 3 (0.92%) Keysight
9 3 (0.92%) Veracode
10 2 (0.61%) Intel