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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 153 94
Rank change year-on-year +8 -59 -40
Permanent jobs citing Validation 85 92 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.08% 1.41% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.57% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 53 44 80
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £38,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -2.86% +11.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,309 £62,625 £78,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 6,386 5,863 4,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.26% 89.99% 86.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,538 2,567 3,870
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +2 51 £37,500 -28.57% 59
East Midlands +17 34 £42,500 -5.56% 96
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 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.18%) CATIA
4 1 (1.18%) Simulink
4 1 (1.18%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.41%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (5.88%) Azure
2 5 (5.88%) SaaS
3 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.53%) dbt
5 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.18%) AWS
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.18%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.18%) Datadog
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub
6 1 (1.18%) PaaS
6 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) NAS
2 1 (1.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (9.41%) Tableau
3 7 (8.24%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.71%) Power BI
5 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.18%) Looker
6 1 (1.18%) Power Query
6 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (10.59%) JIRA
3 3 (3.53%) Git
4 2 (2.35%) Postman
4 2 (2.35%) Selenium
4 2 (2.35%) TestRail
5 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.18%) JMeter
5 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.18%) Locust
5 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (36.47%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.76%) Law
5 9 (10.59%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (10.59%) Finance
6 6 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.88%) Retail
8 4 (4.71%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.71%) Marketing
9 3 (3.53%) Automotive
9 3 (3.53%) Electronics
10 2 (2.35%) Games
10 2 (2.35%) Legal
10 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.18%) Advertising
11 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.18%) Local Government
11 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Analyst
2 17 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Support Analyst
4 13 (15.29%) Junior
5 12 (14.12%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (14.12%) Oracle Analyst
6 10 (11.76%) Junior Support Analyst
6 10 (11.76%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
6 10 (11.76%) Oracle Payroll Support
6 10 (11.76%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 10 (11.76%) Senior
7 9 (10.59%) Data Analyst
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Data Quality Analyst
9 7 (8.24%) Quality Analyst
10 6 (7.06%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (5.88%) ERP Analyst
11 5 (5.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) REST
2 2 (2.35%) CSS
2 2 (2.35%) Deno
2 2 (2.35%) HTML
2 2 (2.35%) Laravel
2 2 (2.35%) Node.js
2 2 (2.35%) Playwright
2 2 (2.35%) React
2 2 (2.35%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (2.35%) Vue
2 2 (2.35%) XML
2 2 (2.35%) Yii
3 1 (1.18%) .NET
3 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.18%) JSON
3 1 (1.18%) ODBC
3 1 (1.18%) SOAP
3 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (28.24%) Data Validation
2 24 (28.24%) Migration
3 22 (25.88%) Systems Engineering
4 20 (23.53%) Verification and Validation
5 18 (21.18%) Data Cleansing
6 17 (20.00%) ERP
7 16 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 14 (16.47%) Agile
8 14 (16.47%) Requirements Management
9 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
10 12 (14.12%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (14.12%) Process Improvement
10 12 (14.12%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (12.94%) System Testing
12 10 (11.76%) Visualisation
13 9 (10.59%) Analytics
13 9 (10.59%) Data Migration
13 9 (10.59%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) SQL
2 12 (14.12%) Python
3 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.35%) PHP
3 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.18%) C
4 1 (1.18%) C++
4 1 (1.18%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.18%) Java
4 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Degree
2 20 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) City & Guilds
6 1 (1.18%) HNC
6 1 (1.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (14.12%) Data Quality
3 11 (12.94%) QA
4 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.35%) GDPR
5 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.35%) NIST
5 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Grafana
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.47%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) SAP
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.18%) IFS
6 1 (1.18%) Magma
6 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.18%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Tanium
6 1 (1.18%) Tenable
6 1 (1.18%) Zscaler