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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 108 84
Rank change year-on-year +99 -24 +7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 888 261 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.42% 2.17% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.54% 2.66% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 59 101 47
10th Percentile £43,900 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £34,452
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +20.88%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £82,750
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +4.17%

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 6,557 9,801 8,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.69% 81.60% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 7,163 4,442
10th Percentile £27,419 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,063 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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
West Midlands +112 452 £65,000 +20.37% 130
East Midlands +69 436 £52,000 +22.35% 58
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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 2 (0.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 208 (23.42%) Simulink
2 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (1.24%) Power Platform
2 9 (1.01%) AWS
3 8 (0.90%) Azure
4 4 (0.45%) GCP
4 4 (0.45%) Snowflake
5 3 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (0.34%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (0.23%) AWS KMS
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.23%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.23%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.23%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.23%) SaaS
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.11%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 180 (20.27%) LTE
1 180 (20.27%) Wi-Fi
1 180 (20.27%) Wireless
2 179 (20.16%) 5G
2 179 (20.16%) Bluetooth
2 179 (20.16%) GSM
2 179 (20.16%) UMTS
3 14 (1.58%) Modbus
4 4 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.45%) Profibus
5 2 (0.23%) DHCP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.24%) Power BI
2 9 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.45%) Big Data
6 3 (0.34%) Tableau
7 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.23%) Looker
7 2 (0.23%) Metadata
7 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (2.59%) JIRA
2 21 (2.36%) Rational DOORS
3 18 (2.03%) Selenium
4 3 (0.34%) Git
5 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.23%) ERwin
5 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.11%) Appium
6 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.11%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.11%) Newman
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
6 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 211 (23.76%) Automotive
2 206 (23.20%) Aerospace
3 195 (21.96%) Electronics
4 29 (3.27%) Social Skills
5 15 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (1.69%) Finance
6 10 (1.13%) Manufacturing
7 6 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.45%) Law
9 4 (0.45%) Retail
10 3 (0.34%) Banking
10 3 (0.34%) Billing
11 2 (0.23%) Advertising
11 2 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.23%) Avionics
11 2 (0.23%) Legal
11 2 (0.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 464 (52.25%) Principal Engineer
1 464 (52.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 213 (23.99%) Systems Engineer
3 180 (20.27%) Electronics Engineer
3 180 (20.27%) Test Engineer
4 179 (20.16%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 157 (17.68%) Validation Engineer
6 140 (15.77%) Integration Engineer
7 139 (15.65%) System Verification Engineer
7 139 (15.65%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 127 (14.30%) Requirements Engineer
9 100 (11.26%) Software Engineer
10 99 (11.15%) Development Engineer
10 99 (11.15%) Software Development Engineer
11 81 (9.12%) Principal Modelling Engineer
12 63 (7.09%) Principal Software Engineer
13 45 (5.07%) Senior
14 38 (4.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 36 (4.05%) Senior Development Engineer
15 36 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.45%) EDI
2 2 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.23%) NumPy
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.23%) Pandas
2 2 (0.23%) PySpark
3 1 (0.11%) JSON
3 1 (0.11%) Middleware
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 179 (20.16%) Driving Licence
2 32 (3.60%) SCADA
3 18 (2.03%) Operational Technology
4 7 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (0.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.23%) IoT
8 1 (0.11%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.11%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.11%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.11%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.11%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.11%) Replication
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.24%) Windows
2 6 (0.68%) Linux
3 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.23%) VMS
3 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) Android
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (71.06%) Systems Engineering
2 486 (54.73%) Verification and Validation
3 219 (24.66%) Agile
4 207 (23.31%) Mentoring
5 206 (23.20%) Software Testing
6 188 (21.17%) Coaching
7 182 (20.50%) Customer Requirements
8 180 (20.27%) Test Strategy
9 153 (17.23%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 136 (15.32%) Project Planning
11 135 (15.20%) SysML
12 124 (13.96%) Acceptance Criteria
13 107 (12.05%) Software Engineering
14 33 (3.72%) Computer Science
15 26 (2.93%) Requirements Management
16 25 (2.82%) Cybersecurity
17 24 (2.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (2.70%) Test Automation
18 18 (2.03%) Model Validation
18 18 (2.03%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 210 (23.65%) MATLAB
2 16 (1.80%) SQL
3 11 (1.24%) Python
4 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.45%) C
5 4 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
6 2 (0.23%) Bash
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded C
6 2 (0.23%) Perl
6 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) C#
7 1 (0.11%) C++
7 1 (0.11%) Groovy
7 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 615 (69.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 362 (40.77%) Degree
3 179 (20.16%) HND
4 149 (16.78%) ISTQB
5 131 (14.75%) Chartered Engineer
6 15 (1.69%) Security Cleared
7 13 (1.46%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.45%) MRICS
10 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (0.68%) QA
3 5 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
3 5 (0.56%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) GMP
4 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.56%) Firmware
2 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (0.68%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.45%) Ansible
3 2 (0.23%) Grafana
3 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.23%) Puppet
3 2 (0.23%) SCOM
3 2 (0.23%) Terraform
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (1.24%) SAP
2 9 (1.01%) Microsoft
3 5 (0.56%) Databricks
3 5 (0.56%) Oracle
3 5 (0.56%) ServiceNow
4 4 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
4 4 (0.45%) NEC
4 4 (0.45%) Rockwell
4 4 (0.45%) Siemens
4 4 (0.45%) YouTube
5 3 (0.34%) Minitab
6 2 (0.23%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.23%) Juniper
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.23%) Splunk
7 1 (0.11%) BMC
7 1 (0.11%) Facebook
7 1 (0.11%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce