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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 48 163
Rank change year-on-year -47 +115 -76
Permanent jobs citing Validation 199 288 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.39% 5.02% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 5.90% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 138 69 58
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,575
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,587 £55,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +13.99% -9.94%
75th Percentile £62,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,750 £71,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -6.25%

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 10,000 4,880 8,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.97% 85.06% 77.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,119 2,973 5,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,886 £27,750
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 £65,945 £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%

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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 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 8 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 +11 109 £44,360 -26.07% 113
East Midlands -65 89 £42,500 - 68
Validation
England

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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 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.50%) Apache
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 18 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.51%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (1.01%) OrCAD
5 2 (1.01%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.50%) CATIA
6 1 (0.50%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.08%) Power Platform
2 16 (8.04%) Azure
3 11 (5.53%) AWS
3 11 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.03%) Serverless
5 7 (3.52%) GCP
6 6 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.01%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.51%) Oracle CX
9 3 (1.51%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.51%) SaaS
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) Datadog
10 2 (1.01%) GitHub
10 2 (1.01%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Wireless
2 6 (3.02%) MQTT
2 6 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.02%) ZigBee
3 5 (2.51%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (2.01%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.01%) Ethernet
4 4 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.51%) Broadband
5 3 (1.51%) Modbus
6 2 (1.01%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (1.01%) SMS
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) DNS
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.50%) SNMP
7 1 (0.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.08%) Power BI
2 15 (7.54%) Tableau
3 7 (3.52%) Metadata
4 6 (3.02%) Power Query
5 5 (2.51%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.51%) DTS
6 3 (1.51%) MySQL
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) GIS
7 2 (1.01%) Looker
7 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Git
1 11 (5.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.03%) GitLab
2 10 (5.03%) Snyk
3 7 (3.52%) Selenium
4 6 (3.02%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.02%) GDB
4 6 (3.02%) JMeter
5 5 (2.51%) JIRA
6 4 (2.01%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.01%) Postman
6 4 (2.01%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.01%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.51%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.51%) Gatling
7 3 (1.51%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.51%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.01%) Hudson
8 2 (1.01%) Locust
General
1 54 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (17.09%) Finance
4 25 (12.56%) Manufacturing
5 22 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (9.05%) Electronics
7 16 (8.04%) Banking
8 14 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (6.53%) Retail
10 12 (6.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (5.03%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.02%) Games
13 5 (2.51%) Law
14 4 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 4 (2.01%) Automotive
14 4 (2.01%) iGaming
14 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.51%) Marketing
16 2 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (15.58%) Senior
2 28 (14.07%) Analyst
3 19 (9.55%) Developer
4 17 (8.54%) Data Scientist
4 17 (8.54%) Lead
5 14 (7.04%) Statistician
6 12 (6.03%) QA Specialist
6 12 (6.03%) Validation Specialist
7 11 (5.53%) Architect
7 11 (5.53%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.03%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Cloud Security Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Junior
8 10 (5.03%) Security Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Senior Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Senior Security Architect
8 10 (5.03%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.02%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) Playwright
1 6 (3.02%) XML
1 6 (3.02%) Yocto
2 5 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.01%) pytest
3 4 (2.01%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (1.51%) RESTful
5 2 (1.01%) .NET
5 2 (1.01%) EDI
5 2 (1.01%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.01%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.01%) Pandas
5 2 (1.01%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.01%) REST
5 2 (1.01%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.01%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.01%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.50%) Blazor
6 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.03%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.53%) IoT
4 10 (5.03%) NHS
5 8 (4.02%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (4.02%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.52%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.02%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.01%) SCADA
9 3 (1.51%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.01%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.01%) CSOC
10 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.54%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Android
2 6 (3.02%) Windows
3 3 (1.51%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (18.59%) AI
3 37 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (17.59%) Decision-Making
5 28 (14.07%) Risk Management
6 27 (13.57%) CI/CD
6 27 (13.57%) Computer Science
7 26 (13.07%) Actionable Insight
7 26 (13.07%) Agile
7 26 (13.07%) Test Automation
8 25 (12.56%) Analytics
9 23 (11.56%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (11.06%) Data Analysis
11 21 (10.55%) CRM
11 21 (10.55%) Data Science
11 21 (10.55%) ERP
11 21 (10.55%) Statistics
12 19 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (9.55%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (22.11%) SQL
2 40 (20.10%) Python
3 13 (6.53%) C
4 10 (5.03%) C++
4 10 (5.03%) Java
5 4 (2.01%) Bash
5 4 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.01%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.51%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.51%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.51%) VBA
7 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.50%) C#
8 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (27.64%) Degree
2 13 (6.53%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.03%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.01%) HND
6 3 (1.51%) CISA
6 3 (1.51%) HNC
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 27 (13.57%) QA
3 10 (5.03%) GRC
4 7 (3.52%) GDPR
5 6 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.02%) ISO 9001
5 6 (3.02%) JTAG
6 4 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.51%) IEC 61508
7 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.01%) ISO 26262
8 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (1.01%) MISRA
8 2 (1.01%) MISRA C
8 2 (1.01%) SLA
8 2 (1.01%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Firmware
2 10 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.02%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.51%) Grafana
2 4 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.51%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.51%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.51%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.03%) CrowdStrike
2 10 (5.03%) Oracle
2 10 (5.03%) Palo Alto
2 10 (5.03%) Tenable
3 9 (4.52%) SAP
4 7 (3.52%) Cisco
5 5 (2.51%) Google
6 4 (2.01%) EMC
6 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.51%) Veracode
8 1 (0.50%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.50%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.50%) Apple
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.50%) Meraki