Verification and Validation Job Trends in Staffordshire

Verification and Validation
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Verification and Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £53,608 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

Verification and 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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 482 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.29% 90.26% 85.62%
Number of salaries quoted 338 304 330
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,822 £24,450
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £59,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Verification and Validation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Verification and Validation job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Verification and Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Verification and Validation

Verification and Validation
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Verification and Validation within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Rugeley - 1 £65,000 -
Verification and Validation
West Midlands

Verification and Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared