Validation Jobs in the Midlands

Validation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Validation over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 156 88
Rank change year-on-year +142 -68 -15
Permanent jobs citing Validation 700 203 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.08% 1.47% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 1.85% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 65 80 53
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,552
25th Percentile £47,000 £40,563 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -5.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £64,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £84,250
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +13.64%

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 6,164 10,975 7,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.75% 79.40% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 7,349 4,411
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,435 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.43% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Validation in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Validation in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
East Midlands +101 367 £47,500 +9.83% 91
West Midlands +141 333 £62,500 +19.05% 207
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.57%) CMS
2 3 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 178 (25.43%) Simulink
2 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (1.71%) Power Platform
2 9 (1.29%) AWS
2 9 (1.29%) Azure
3 5 (0.71%) GCP
4 4 (0.57%) Snowflake
5 3 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.43%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (0.43%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (0.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.43%) AWS KMS
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.29%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.29%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.29%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 180 (25.71%) LTE
1 180 (25.71%) Wi-Fi
1 180 (25.71%) Wireless
2 179 (25.57%) 5G
2 179 (25.57%) Bluetooth
2 179 (25.57%) GSM
2 179 (25.57%) UMTS
3 19 (2.71%) Modbus
4 12 (1.71%) Ethernet
4 12 (1.71%) Profibus
5 4 (0.57%) 3GPP
6 3 (0.43%) Broadband
6 3 (0.43%) Firewall
7 2 (0.29%) DHCP
7 2 (0.29%) DNS
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) MPLS
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.14%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.71%) Power BI
2 11 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.00%) Tableau
5 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.71%) Big Data
6 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.43%) Metadata
7 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.29%) Looker
8 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (3.00%) JIRA
2 19 (2.71%) Rational DOORS
3 16 (2.29%) Selenium
4 5 (0.71%) Git
5 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.43%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.29%) ERwin
6 2 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) FitNesse
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) Newman
7 1 (0.14%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 201 (28.71%) Electronics
2 182 (26.00%) Automotive
3 178 (25.43%) Aerospace
4 39 (5.57%) Social Skills
5 18 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (2.57%) Finance
6 15 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.00%) Retail
9 6 (0.86%) Avionics
9 6 (0.86%) Back Office
10 5 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.71%) Law
10 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.43%) Banking
11 3 (0.43%) Billing
11 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 289 (41.29%) Principal Engineer
1 289 (41.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 225 (32.14%) Systems Engineer
3 180 (25.71%) Electronics Engineer
3 180 (25.71%) Test Engineer
4 179 (25.57%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 100 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 99 (14.14%) Development Engineer
6 99 (14.14%) Software Development Engineer
7 91 (13.00%) Requirements Engineer
8 63 (9.00%) Principal Software Engineer
9 60 (8.57%) Validation Engineer
10 45 (6.43%) Integration Engineer
10 45 (6.43%) Senior
10 45 (6.43%) System Verification Engineer
10 45 (6.43%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 36 (5.14%) Principal Modelling Engineer
11 36 (5.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 36 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 36 (5.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.43%) EDI
1 3 (0.43%) PySpark
2 2 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.29%) NumPy
2 2 (0.29%) Pandas
3 1 (0.14%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.14%) JSON
3 1 (0.14%) Kafka
3 1 (0.14%) Plotly
3 1 (0.14%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.14%) REST
3 1 (0.14%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 179 (25.57%) Driving Licence
2 34 (4.86%) SCADA
3 16 (2.29%) Operational Technology
4 8 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.29%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.29%) Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.29%) TM Forum
6 2 (0.29%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.14%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.14%) IoT
7 1 (0.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.14%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.14%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.86%) Windows
2 6 (0.86%) Linux
3 3 (0.43%) VMS
4 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (60.86%) Systems Engineering
2 346 (49.43%) Verification and Validation
3 206 (29.43%) Mentoring
4 195 (27.86%) Agile
5 181 (25.86%) Coaching
6 180 (25.71%) Customer Requirements
6 180 (25.71%) Test Strategy
7 178 (25.43%) Software Testing
8 106 (15.14%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 91 (13.00%) Project Planning
10 90 (12.86%) SysML
11 88 (12.57%) Acceptance Criteria
12 83 (11.86%) Software Engineering
13 28 (4.00%) Computer Science
14 27 (3.86%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (3.43%) Requirements Management
16 21 (3.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (3.00%) Test Automation
17 18 (2.57%) Mechatronics
17 18 (2.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 180 (25.71%) MATLAB
2 17 (2.43%) SQL
3 15 (2.14%) Python
4 12 (1.71%) Ladder Logic
5 5 (0.71%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.43%) Bash
6 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.29%) C
7 2 (0.29%) C++
7 2 (0.29%) Groovy
7 2 (0.29%) Java
7 2 (0.29%) Perl
8 1 (0.14%) C#
8 1 (0.14%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 425 (60.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 272 (38.86%) Degree
3 180 (25.71%) HND
4 60 (8.57%) ISTQB
5 45 (6.43%) Chartered Engineer
6 14 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.57%) Security Cleared
8 9 (1.29%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.43%) MRICS
10 2 (0.29%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.14%) QA
3 5 (0.71%) Automotive SPICE
3 5 (0.71%) ISO 26262
4 4 (0.57%) NCSC
5 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) COSHH
6 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (0.71%) Firmware
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (0.86%) Functional Safety
2 5 (0.71%) Ansible
3 3 (0.43%) Grafana
3 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.43%) Terraform
4 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.29%) Puppet
4 2 (0.29%) SCOM
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
5 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 14 (2.00%) SAP
2 13 (1.86%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.71%) Allen-Bradley
3 12 (1.71%) Rockwell
3 12 (1.71%) Siemens
4 8 (1.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (0.71%) Databricks
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle
7 3 (0.43%) Juniper
7 3 (0.43%) Minitab
7 3 (0.43%) NEC
7 3 (0.43%) YouTube
8 2 (0.29%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.29%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.14%) BMC
9 1 (0.14%) Civica
9 1 (0.14%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.14%) Remedy