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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 46 158
Rank change year-on-year -55 +112 -68
Permanent jobs citing Validation 205 288 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.41% 4.95% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 5.82% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 135 68 63
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,720 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +15.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £62,000 £67,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £77,800 £71,250 £66,650
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -7.69%

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 10,144 4,949 8,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.85% 85.09% 77.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,222 2,998 4,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +21 112 £44,720 -22.23% 148
East Midlands -65 92 £44,424 +4.53% 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 3 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.95%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.46%) Simulink
5 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.98%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.98%) Solid Edge
5 2 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.49%) CATIA
6 1 (0.49%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.49%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.71%) Power Platform
2 15 (7.32%) Azure
3 11 (5.37%) AWS
3 11 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.88%) Serverless
5 6 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.93%) GCP
5 6 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (1.95%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.46%) Oracle CX
8 3 (1.46%) SaaS
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.98%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.98%) Datadog
9 2 (0.98%) dbt
9 2 (0.98%) GitHub
9 2 (0.98%) PaaS
9 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.39%) Modbus
2 7 (3.41%) Wireless
3 6 (2.93%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.93%) MQTT
3 6 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.93%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.44%) VLAN
5 4 (1.95%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.95%) OSPF
6 3 (1.46%) LAN
6 3 (1.46%) Network Security
6 3 (1.46%) VPN
6 3 (1.46%) WAN
6 3 (1.46%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.98%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.98%) SMS
7 2 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.71%) Power BI
2 13 (6.34%) Tableau
3 6 (2.93%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (2.44%) Metadata
5 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.46%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (1.46%) DTS
5 3 (1.46%) GIS
5 3 (1.46%) MySQL
5 3 (1.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.46%) Power Query
5 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Git
1 11 (5.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.88%) GitLab
2 10 (4.88%) Snyk
3 8 (3.90%) Selenium
4 7 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.41%) JMeter
5 6 (2.93%) GDB
6 5 (2.44%) JIRA
7 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.95%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.95%) Postman
7 4 (1.95%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.95%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.46%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.46%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.46%) Gatling
8 3 (1.46%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.46%) LabVIEW
General
1 52 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Finance
4 27 (13.17%) Manufacturing
5 24 (11.71%) Electronics
5 24 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.78%) Banking
7 16 (7.80%) Retail
8 14 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (6.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (5.37%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.41%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.93%) Games
13 5 (2.44%) Law
14 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.95%) iGaming
14 4 (1.95%) Marketing
15 3 (1.46%) Automotive
15 3 (1.46%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (16.10%) Senior
2 24 (11.71%) Analyst
3 20 (9.76%) Lead
4 18 (8.78%) Developer
5 17 (8.29%) Data Scientist
6 14 (6.83%) Statistician
7 13 (6.34%) QA Specialist
7 13 (6.34%) Validation Specialist
8 11 (5.37%) Architect
8 11 (5.37%) Embedded Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Cloud Security Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Senior Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Senior Security Architect
9 10 (4.88%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.39%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.41%) XML
2 6 (2.93%) Playwright
2 6 (2.93%) Yocto
3 5 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.95%) pytest
4 4 (1.95%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (1.46%) EDI
5 3 (1.46%) RESTful
6 2 (0.98%) .NET
6 2 (0.98%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.98%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.98%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.98%) REST
6 2 (0.98%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.98%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.98%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.49%) Blazor
7 1 (0.49%) Kafka
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.83%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.37%) IoT
3 11 (5.37%) SCADA
4 10 (4.88%) NHS
5 8 (3.90%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (3.90%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.41%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.93%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.95%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.46%) Robotics
9 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.98%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.98%) CSOC
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.93%) Android
2 6 (2.93%) Windows
3 3 (1.46%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (18.54%) AI
4 33 (16.10%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (14.63%) Decision-Making
5 30 (14.63%) Test Automation
6 29 (14.15%) Computer Science
7 28 (13.66%) Risk Management
8 27 (13.17%) Agile
8 27 (13.17%) CI/CD
9 23 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
10 22 (10.73%) Analytics
10 22 (10.73%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (9.27%) CRM
11 19 (9.27%) Data Science
11 19 (9.27%) Machine Learning
11 19 (9.27%) Process Improvement
11 19 (9.27%) Statistics
12 18 (8.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.51%) Python
2 39 (19.02%) SQL
3 15 (7.32%) C
4 12 (5.85%) Java
5 10 (4.88%) C++
6 5 (2.44%) Embedded C
6 5 (2.44%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.95%) Bash
8 3 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.49%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.49%) R
10 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (29.76%) Degree
2 18 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) Master's Degree
3 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.95%) HND
6 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.46%) CISA
6 3 (1.46%) HNC
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.17%) QA
2 22 (10.73%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.88%) GRC
4 6 (2.93%) GDPR
4 6 (2.93%) ISO 9001
4 6 (2.93%) JTAG
5 5 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.46%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.98%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.98%) MISRA
7 2 (0.98%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.98%) SLA
7 2 (0.98%) WCAG
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.49%) NIST
8 1 (0.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (8.29%) Firmware
2 11 (5.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) Grafana
2 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.46%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.46%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle
3 10 (4.88%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (4.88%) Palo Alto
3 10 (4.88%) Tenable
4 9 (4.39%) Cisco
5 7 (3.41%) SAP
6 4 (1.95%) EMC
6 4 (1.95%) Google
6 4 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.46%) Veracode
8 1 (0.49%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.49%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.49%) Apple
8 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.49%) Meraki
8 1 (0.49%) NCR
8 1 (0.49%) Xero