Data Validation Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Validation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 243 263
Rank change year-on-year +57 +20 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 8 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.14% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.16% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile - - £25,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,500 £25,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £26,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% +83.18% -23.57%
75th Percentile £61,250 £49,500 £28,313
90th Percentile £63,500 £54,700 £28,575
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,019 6,107 6,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.42% 82.86% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,565 3,200
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,025
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the West Midlands

Data Validation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Validation in the West Midlands

Data Validation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Shropshire - 5 £55,000 -
Birmingham +30 3 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) ERP
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle