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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 179
Rank change year-on-year -17 +125 -61
Permanent jobs citing Validation 304 257 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.93% 4.57% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 5.26% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 174 46 39
10th Percentile £31,475 £38,750 £33,450
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 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £58,800
England median annual salary £57,750 £55,000 £57,004
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.52% -12.30%

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 11,067 4,884 7,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.17% 86.84% 79.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,838 2,826 3,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £46,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -7.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,700
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 October 2026.

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 2 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 +48 171 £48,750 -11.36% 269
East Midlands -43 133 £50,000 +17.65% 143
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 6 (1.97%) CMS
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.29%) SOLIDWORKS
3 9 (2.96%) Simulink
4 8 (2.63%) OrCAD
5 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.66%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.66%) Notion
8 1 (0.33%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.33%) CATIA
8 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.33%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.30%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Maximo
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 23 (7.57%) Azure
3 14 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.29%) AWS
4 10 (3.29%) Serverless
5 9 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.96%) GitHub
6 5 (1.64%) GCP
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (0.99%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle CX
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.66%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.21%) Modbus
2 16 (5.26%) VLAN
3 15 (4.93%) OSPF
4 12 (3.95%) Ethernet
4 12 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.29%) VPN
6 9 (2.96%) DMZ
6 9 (2.96%) IPv4
6 9 (2.96%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.30%) LAN
7 7 (2.30%) WAN
7 7 (2.30%) Wireless
8 6 (1.97%) BGP
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.97%) MQTT
8 6 (1.97%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.97%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (1.64%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.53%) Power BI
2 12 (3.95%) Tableau
3 7 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.64%) Metadata
5 4 (1.32%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.32%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.32%) GIS
5 4 (1.32%) Parquet
5 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.99%) DTS
6 3 (0.99%) MySQL
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Git
2 14 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.95%) GitLab
4 10 (3.29%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.29%) Snyk
5 9 (2.96%) Eclipse
5 9 (2.96%) JIRA
6 7 (2.30%) Selenium
7 6 (1.97%) GDB
8 5 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.64%) JMeter
9 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.32%) Postman
9 4 (1.32%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.32%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.99%) Gatling
General
1 80 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (20.07%) Manufacturing
4 57 (18.75%) Electronics
5 53 (17.43%) Finance
6 37 (12.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (7.24%) Banking
8 21 (6.91%) Retail
9 20 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (5.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (5.59%) Public Sector
10 17 (5.59%) Telecoms
11 13 (4.28%) Marketing
12 11 (3.62%) Aerospace
12 11 (3.62%) Automotive
13 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.64%) French Language
14 5 (1.64%) Law
14 5 (1.64%) Military
15 4 (1.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (15.79%) Senior
2 34 (11.18%) Lead
3 30 (9.87%) Automation Engineer
4 24 (7.89%) Analyst
5 19 (6.25%) Developer
6 17 (5.59%) Data Scientist
7 16 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 15 (4.93%) Architect
8 15 (4.93%) Design Engineer
8 15 (4.93%) Electronics Engineer
9 14 (4.61%) Statistician
10 13 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (4.28%) QA Specialist
10 13 (4.28%) Validation Specialist
11 10 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.29%) Performance Manager
11 10 (3.29%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.29%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.29%) Senior Security Architect
11 10 (3.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.29%) XML
2 6 (1.97%) .NET
2 6 (1.97%) Terraform
2 6 (1.97%) Yocto
3 5 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.64%) Playwright
4 4 (1.32%) EDI
4 4 (1.32%) PySpark
4 4 (1.32%) pytest
4 4 (1.32%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (1.32%) YAML
5 3 (0.99%) Blazor
5 3 (0.99%) Django
5 3 (0.99%) REST
5 3 (0.99%) RESTful
6 2 (0.66%) JSON
6 2 (0.66%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.66%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.51%) SCADA
2 29 (9.54%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.62%) IoT
6 11 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.29%) NHS
7 10 (3.29%) Robotics
8 9 (2.96%) FMCG
9 8 (2.63%) Driving Licence
10 7 (2.30%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (2.30%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.97%) Analogue Electronics
11 6 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.97%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.64%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.92%) Linux
2 6 (1.97%) Android
2 6 (1.97%) Windows
3 3 (0.99%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (15.46%) Computer Science
5 46 (15.13%) AI
6 45 (14.80%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (14.14%) Agile
8 41 (13.49%) Customer Requirements
8 41 (13.49%) Test Automation
9 38 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 33 (10.86%) Decision-Making
10 33 (10.86%) Risk Management
11 32 (10.53%) Data Science
12 31 (10.20%) ERP
12 31 (10.20%) Verification and Validation
13 29 (9.54%) Migration
14 28 (9.21%) Software Testing
15 27 (8.88%) Project Management
16 26 (8.55%) Analytics
16 26 (8.55%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.75%) SQL
2 55 (18.09%) Python
3 21 (6.91%) C
4 18 (5.92%) Java
5 11 (3.62%) C++
5 11 (3.62%) Embedded C
6 10 (3.29%) MATLAB
7 5 (1.64%) Bash
8 4 (1.32%) C#
8 4 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (34.54%) Degree
2 39 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.24%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.29%) HND
7 9 (2.96%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.63%) HNC
8 8 (2.63%) PMP
9 3 (0.99%) CISA
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.66%) ACCA
10 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) CIMA
10 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.22%) QA
3 10 (3.29%) GRC
4 8 (2.63%) GDPR
5 6 (1.97%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.97%) JTAG
6 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) GAMP
9 1 (0.33%) GMP
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (9.54%) Firmware
2 20 (6.58%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.97%) Docker
5 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.64%) Ansible
1 5 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.99%) Grafana
2 3 (0.99%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.66%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.26%) EMC
3 14 (4.61%) Oracle
4 12 (3.95%) Cisco
5 10 (3.29%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (3.29%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.29%) Tenable
6 9 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.96%) SAP
7 7 (2.30%) Infor
8 6 (1.97%) Adobe
8 6 (1.97%) Samsung
8 6 (1.97%) TikTok
9 5 (1.64%) Cadence
10 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.99%) Google
11 3 (0.99%) Siemens
11 3 (0.99%) Veracode
12 2 (0.66%) Keysight
12 2 (0.66%) Rockwell