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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 185 121
Rank change year-on-year +127 -64 -68
Permanent jobs citing Validation 257 93 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.64% 1.00% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 1.25% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 46 38 68
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,000 £32,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,494
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 £60,188
90th Percentile £75,900 £58,825 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +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 4,806 7,468 4,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.84% 80.51% 93.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,802 3,425 3,732
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,031 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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

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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 October 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 October 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 +106 205 £42,500 -10.53% 26
West Midlands +24 52 £55,000 +10.00% 73
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 (1.56%) CMS
1 4 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.72%) Azure
2 6 (2.33%) AWS
3 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.17%) AWS KMS
4 3 (1.17%) GCP
4 3 (1.17%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (0.78%) dbt
5 2 (0.78%) GitHub
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.39%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.39%) OCI
6 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 179 (69.65%) 5G
1 179 (69.65%) Bluetooth
1 179 (69.65%) GSM
1 179 (69.65%) LTE
1 179 (69.65%) UMTS
1 179 (69.65%) Wi-Fi
1 179 (69.65%) Wireless
2 12 (4.67%) Ethernet
2 12 (4.67%) Modbus
2 12 (4.67%) Profibus
3 4 (1.56%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.56%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Internet
4 2 (0.78%) MPLS
4 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) NAS
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.67%) Tableau
2 10 (3.89%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.56%) Power BI
4 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.17%) Big Data
5 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.39%) HBase
6 1 (0.39%) Impala
6 1 (0.39%) Looker
6 1 (0.39%) Metadata
6 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.11%) JIRA
2 5 (1.95%) Git
2 5 (1.95%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.17%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.39%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 193 (75.10%) Electronics
2 21 (8.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.84%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.67%) Finance
6 11 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.11%) Retail
8 6 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.33%) Automotive
9 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.17%) Law
11 2 (0.78%) Avionics
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (70.04%) Test Engineer
2 179 (69.65%) Electronics Engineer
2 179 (69.65%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 22 (8.56%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (6.23%) Analyst
5 12 (4.67%) Control Systems Engineer
6 11 (4.28%) Data Analyst
7 9 (3.50%) Data Quality Analyst
7 9 (3.50%) Quality Analyst
8 8 (3.11%) Lead
9 6 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (2.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 4 (1.56%) Data Engineer
10 4 (1.56%) Development Engineer
10 4 (1.56%) Senior
10 4 (1.56%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (1.56%) Software Engineer
11 3 (1.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (1.17%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.17%) PySpark
2 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.78%) NumPy
2 2 (0.78%) Pandas
3 1 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.39%) JSON
3 1 (0.39%) Kafka
3 1 (0.39%) Playwright
3 1 (0.39%) Plotly
3 1 (0.39%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.39%) REST
3 1 (0.39%) Shiny
3 1 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (69.65%) Driving Licence
2 12 (4.67%) SCADA
3 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.78%) Replication
5 2 (0.78%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.39%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.89%) Windows
2 5 (1.95%) Linux
3 3 (1.17%) VMS
4 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (73.54%) Mentoring
2 187 (72.76%) Verification and Validation
3 181 (70.43%) Coaching
3 181 (70.43%) Test Strategy
4 180 (70.04%) Customer Requirements
5 23 (8.95%) Agile
6 18 (7.00%) Data Validation
7 16 (6.23%) Migration
8 15 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (5.84%) Data Cleansing
9 14 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (5.45%) Risk Assessment
10 13 (5.06%) Mechatronics
10 13 (5.06%) Systems Engineering
11 12 (4.67%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (4.28%) Visualisation
13 10 (3.89%) Data Visualisation
13 10 (3.89%) ERP
14 7 (2.72%) ETL
14 7 (2.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.78%) Python
2 19 (7.39%) SQL
3 12 (4.67%) Ladder Logic
4 4 (1.56%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.17%) Bash
5 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.78%) Groovy
6 2 (0.78%) Java
6 2 (0.78%) Perl
6 2 (0.78%) R
7 1 (0.39%) C++
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (78.99%) Degree
2 180 (70.04%) HND
3 13 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.67%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.56%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.67%) QA
3 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.56%) NCSC
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.39%) COSHH
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.95%) Ansible
2 3 (1.17%) Grafana
2 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.17%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.78%) Puppet
3 2 (0.78%) SCOM
4 1 (0.39%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.39%) Kibana
4 1 (0.39%) logstash
4 1 (0.39%) Oozie
Vendors
1 12 (4.67%) Allen-Bradley
1 12 (4.67%) Microsoft
1 12 (4.67%) Rockwell
1 12 (4.67%) Siemens
2 9 (3.50%) SAP
3 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle
5 3 (1.17%) Databricks
5 3 (1.17%) IBM
5 3 (1.17%) Juniper
6 2 (0.78%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.39%) BMC
7 1 (0.39%) BT
7 1 (0.39%) Civica
7 1 (0.39%) Informatica
7 1 (0.39%) Magma
7 1 (0.39%) Remedy