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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 60 178
Rank change year-on-year -12 +118 -62
Permanent jobs citing Validation 307 258 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.97% 4.57% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 5.27% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 172 46 39
10th Percentile £32,500 £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% -2.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £58,800
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

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 11,029 4,897 7,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.60% 86.76% 80.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,795 2,827 3,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 October 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 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 +50 171 £47,500 -13.64% 245
East Midlands -36 136 £50,000 +17.65% 136
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 12 (3.91%) CMS
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 15 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.26%) OrCAD
3 9 (2.93%) Simulink
3 9 (2.93%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.30%) Notion
7 3 (0.98%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.33%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.28%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Maximo
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
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 33 (10.75%) Power Platform
2 25 (8.14%) Azure
3 14 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.26%) AWS
5 9 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.93%) GitHub
6 6 (1.95%) Serverless
7 5 (1.63%) GCP
8 4 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.98%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle CX
9 3 (0.98%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (0.65%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.10%) Modbus
2 18 (5.86%) VLAN
3 17 (5.54%) OSPF
4 13 (4.23%) Ethernet
5 12 (3.91%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.91%) VPN
6 11 (3.58%) DMZ
6 11 (3.58%) IPv4
7 9 (2.93%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.28%) LAN
8 7 (2.28%) WAN
8 7 (2.28%) Wireless
9 6 (1.95%) BGP
9 6 (1.95%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.95%) MQTT
9 6 (1.95%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.95%) ZigBee
10 5 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.75%) Power BI
2 12 (3.91%) Tableau
3 7 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.63%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.30%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.30%) GIS
5 4 (1.30%) Parquet
5 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.98%) MySQL
6 3 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.65%) DTS
7 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (6.84%) Git
2 14 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.91%) GitLab
4 11 (3.58%) LabVIEW
5 9 (2.93%) Eclipse
5 9 (2.93%) JIRA
6 6 (1.95%) GDB
6 6 (1.95%) Snyk
7 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.63%) JMeter
7 5 (1.63%) Selenium
8 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.30%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.30%) Postman
8 4 (1.30%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.98%) Gatling
General
1 80 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 79 (25.73%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (21.82%) Manufacturing
4 61 (19.87%) Electronics
5 59 (19.22%) Finance
6 43 (14.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.84%) Banking
8 20 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (6.51%) Retail
9 19 (6.19%) Marketing
10 17 (5.54%) Telecoms
11 16 (5.21%) Public Sector
12 15 (4.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (3.58%) Aerospace
13 11 (3.58%) Automotive
14 9 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (2.61%) French Language
16 5 (1.63%) Law
16 5 (1.63%) Military
17 4 (1.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.68%) Senior
2 34 (11.07%) Automation Engineer
3 32 (10.42%) Lead
4 22 (7.17%) Analyst
5 19 (6.19%) Developer
6 18 (5.86%) Design Engineer
6 18 (5.86%) Electronics Engineer
7 17 (5.54%) Data Scientist
8 15 (4.89%) Embedded Engineer
8 15 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.56%) Statistician
10 13 (4.23%) Electrical Engineer
11 12 (3.91%) Architect
11 12 (3.91%) Control Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) QA Specialist
12 11 (3.58%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Validation Specialist
13 10 (3.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.26%) XML
2 6 (1.95%) .NET
2 6 (1.95%) Terraform
2 6 (1.95%) Yocto
3 4 (1.30%) EDI
3 4 (1.30%) Playwright
3 4 (1.30%) PySpark
3 4 (1.30%) pytest
3 4 (1.30%) Unity DI Container
3 4 (1.30%) YAML
4 3 (0.98%) Blazor
4 3 (0.98%) Django
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.98%) REST
4 3 (0.98%) RESTful
5 2 (0.65%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.65%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.65%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.65%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.70%) SCADA
2 28 (9.12%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.86%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (5.21%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.56%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.58%) IoT
8 10 (3.26%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.26%) NHS
8 10 (3.26%) Robotics
9 9 (2.93%) FMCG
10 8 (2.61%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.28%) Analogue Electronics
11 7 (2.28%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.95%) ARM Cortex
12 6 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.95%) Device Driver
13 5 (1.63%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.95%) Android
2 6 (1.95%) Windows
3 3 (0.98%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (15.64%) Computer Science
5 45 (14.66%) AI
5 45 (14.66%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (14.66%) Customer Requirements
6 44 (14.33%) Agile
7 40 (13.03%) Test Automation
8 34 (11.07%) CI/CD
8 34 (11.07%) Decision-Making
8 34 (11.07%) Risk Management
8 34 (11.07%) Verification and Validation
9 32 (10.42%) Data Science
10 30 (9.77%) ERP
11 28 (9.12%) Migration
12 27 (8.79%) Data Management
12 27 (8.79%) Data Modelling
12 27 (8.79%) Project Management
12 27 (8.79%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (18.24%) SQL
2 54 (17.59%) Python
3 20 (6.51%) C
4 18 (5.86%) Java
5 11 (3.58%) Embedded C
6 10 (3.26%) C++
7 9 (2.93%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.63%) Bash
8 5 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.30%) C#
10 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) R
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 110 (35.83%) Degree
2 41 (13.36%) Security Cleared
3 32 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.49%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.91%) HND
7 10 (3.26%) HNC
8 8 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.61%) PMP
9 3 (0.98%) CISA
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.65%) ACCA
10 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.65%) CIMA
10 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.84%) QA
3 9 (2.93%) GDPR
4 8 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.28%) GRC
6 6 (1.95%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.95%) JTAG
7 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.65%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) GAMP
10 1 (0.33%) GMP
10 1 (0.33%) GxP
10 1 (0.33%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.33%) NIST
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (9.12%) Firmware
2 19 (6.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.95%) Docker
3 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.63%) Ansible
1 5 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.98%) Grafana
2 3 (0.98%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.86%) EMC
3 17 (5.54%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.91%) Adobe
4 12 (3.91%) Cisco
4 12 (3.91%) Oracle
4 12 (3.91%) Samsung
4 12 (3.91%) TikTok
5 9 (2.93%) SAP
6 7 (2.28%) Cadence
6 7 (2.28%) Infor
7 6 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.95%) Tenable
8 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.30%) Siemens
9 3 (0.98%) Google
9 3 (0.98%) Veracode
10 2 (0.65%) Keysight
10 2 (0.65%) Rockwell