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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 157 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 -73 -33
Permanent jobs citing Validation 86 93 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.10% 1.37% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.53% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 54 46 80
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,875
90th Percentile £72,583 £59,500 £78,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.21%

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 6,392 6,094 4,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.86% 89.51% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,532 2,699 3,484
10th Percentile £28,000 £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 £77,500
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

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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 December 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 24 December 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
West Midlands +22 53 £40,000 -21.95% 118
East Midlands +6 33 £42,500 -10.53% 79
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 2 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) CATIA
4 1 (1.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (5.81%) Azure
2 5 (5.81%) SaaS
3 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.49%) dbt
5 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.16%) AWS
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.16%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.16%) Datadog
6 1 (1.16%) GitHub
6 1 (1.16%) PaaS
6 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) 3GPP
1 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
1 2 (2.33%) Modbus
1 2 (2.33%) Profibus
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) NAS
2 1 (1.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) Tableau
2 9 (10.47%) BigQuery
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.65%) Power BI
6 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.16%) Looker
7 1 (1.16%) Power Query
7 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (10.47%) JIRA
3 3 (3.49%) Git
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
4 2 (2.33%) TestRail
5 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.16%) JMeter
5 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.16%) Locust
5 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (33.72%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Manufacturing
4 11 (12.79%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Finance
6 8 (9.30%) Law
7 6 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (5.81%) Electronics
8 5 (5.81%) Retail
9 4 (4.65%) Aerospace
9 4 (4.65%) Marketing
10 3 (3.49%) Automotive
11 2 (2.33%) Games
11 2 (2.33%) Legal
11 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.16%) Advertising
12 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.05%) Analyst
2 17 (19.77%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (13.95%) Support Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Data Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Junior
5 10 (11.63%) Junior Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) Oracle Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Data Quality Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Quality Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Senior
7 8 (9.30%) Junior Support Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) Oracle Payroll Support
7 8 (9.30%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Lead
8 7 (8.14%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) REST
2 2 (2.33%) CSS
2 2 (2.33%) Deno
2 2 (2.33%) HTML
2 2 (2.33%) Laravel
2 2 (2.33%) Node.js
2 2 (2.33%) Playwright
2 2 (2.33%) React
2 2 (2.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (2.33%) Vue
2 2 (2.33%) XML
2 2 (2.33%) Yii
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.16%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.16%) JSON
3 1 (1.16%) ODBC
3 1 (1.16%) SOAP
3 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) SCADA
3 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Migration
2 24 (27.91%) Data Validation
3 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (23.26%) Data Cleansing
4 20 (23.26%) Systems Engineering
4 20 (23.26%) Verification and Validation
5 18 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (19.77%) ERP
7 14 (16.28%) Agile
7 14 (16.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
8 13 (15.12%) Requirements Management
9 12 (13.95%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (13.95%) Visualisation
10 11 (12.79%) Data Visualisation
11 10 (11.63%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (11.63%) Process Improvement
12 9 (10.47%) Analytics
12 9 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.47%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (46.51%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) Python
3 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.33%) Ladder Logic
3 2 (2.33%) PHP
3 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.16%) C
4 1 (1.16%) C++
4 1 (1.16%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.16%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.16%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.28%) Data Quality
1 14 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (15.12%) QA
3 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) NCSC
4 2 (2.33%) NIST
4 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.16%) PMO
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Grafana
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.95%) Oracle
3 6 (6.98%) SAP
4 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 2 (2.33%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (2.33%) Rockwell
5 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.33%) Siemens
6 1 (1.16%) BMC
6 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.16%) IFS
6 1 (1.16%) Magma
6 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.16%) Remedy
6 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) Tanium
6 1 (1.16%) Tenable
6 1 (1.16%) Zscaler