Validation Jobs in the West Midlands

Validation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 136 63
Rank change year-on-year +123 -73 +5
Permanent jobs citing Validation 413 131 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.06% 1.57% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.07% 1.96% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 44 69 49
10th Percentile - £36,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,450 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £64,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £82,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,730 6,695 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.84% 80.35% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 4,750 3,139
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,725 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Validation in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in the West Midlands

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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 Validation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Warwickshire +46 256 £67,500 +28.57% 41
Birmingham +86 79 £62,500 +31.72% 27
Coventry +29 59 - - 14
Shropshire - 11 £55,000 - 2
Herefordshire +6 2 - -
Solihull - 2 - - 3
Wolverhampton +20 1 - - 1
Worcestershire +6 1 £55,000 - 4
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 137 (33.17%) Simulink
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (2.18%) AWS
1 9 (2.18%) Azure
2 7 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 4 (0.97%) GCP
3 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon S3
4 3 (0.73%) AWS KMS
4 3 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (0.48%) Lucidchart
5 2 (0.48%) Power Automate
5 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.94%) Ethernet
1 8 (1.94%) Modbus
1 8 (1.94%) Profibus
2 3 (0.73%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) Broadband
3 2 (0.48%) DHCP
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) MPLS
3 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.69%) Power BI
2 5 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.97%) Big Data
3 4 (0.97%) Tableau
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.48%) Looker
5 2 (0.48%) Metadata
5 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.24%) MS Access
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (5.08%) JIRA
2 19 (4.60%) Selenium
3 3 (0.73%) Git
3 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.73%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.48%) ERwin
4 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.24%) Appium
5 1 (0.24%) JUnit
5 1 (0.24%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 141 (34.14%) Automotive
2 136 (32.93%) Aerospace
3 14 (3.39%) Electronics
4 12 (2.91%) Manufacturing
4 12 (2.91%) Social Skills
5 10 (2.42%) Finance
6 9 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.73%) Banking
9 3 (0.73%) Billing
10 2 (0.48%) Advertising
10 2 (0.48%) Law
10 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Games
11 1 (0.24%) Legal
11 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 256 (61.99%) Principal Engineer
1 256 (61.99%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 146 (35.35%) Systems Engineer
3 78 (18.89%) Validation Engineer
4 66 (15.98%) Development Engineer
4 66 (15.98%) Software Development Engineer
4 66 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 64 (15.50%) Requirements Engineer
6 60 (14.53%) Integration Engineer
6 60 (14.53%) System Verification Engineer
6 60 (14.53%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 54 (13.08%) Principal Modelling Engineer
8 42 (10.17%) Principal Software Engineer
9 28 (6.78%) Senior
10 24 (5.81%) Senior Development Engineer
10 24 (5.81%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 24 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (5.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (5.57%) Lead
12 18 (4.36%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.97%) EDI
2 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.48%) NumPy
2 2 (0.48%) Pandas
2 2 (0.48%) PySpark
3 1 (0.24%) Middleware
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.30%) SCADA
2 18 (4.36%) Operational Technology
3 7 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.48%) Replication
5 2 (0.48%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.24%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.24%) CAN bus
6 1 (0.24%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.24%) IoT
6 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.24%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.24%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.45%) Linux
1 6 (1.45%) Windows
2 3 (0.73%) VMS
3 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (86.20%) Systems Engineering
2 150 (36.32%) Verification and Validation
3 148 (35.84%) Agile
4 137 (33.17%) Software Testing
5 91 (22.03%) Project Planning
6 90 (21.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 90 (21.79%) SysML
7 72 (17.43%) Software Engineering
8 64 (15.50%) Acceptance Criteria
9 25 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (5.08%) Computer Science
11 20 (4.84%) Mentoring
11 20 (4.84%) Test Automation
12 18 (4.36%) Model Validation
12 18 (4.36%) Penetration Testing
13 14 (3.39%) Mechatronics
14 10 (2.42%) Risk Assessment
15 8 (1.94%) Analytics
15 8 (1.94%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (1.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 137 (33.17%) MATLAB
2 9 (2.18%) Python
2 9 (2.18%) SQL
3 8 (1.94%) Ladder Logic
4 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.48%) Bash
5 2 (0.48%) Groovy
5 2 (0.48%) Perl
6 1 (0.24%) C
6 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 350 (84.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 92 (22.28%) Degree
3 78 (18.89%) ISTQB
4 60 (14.53%) Chartered Engineer
5 8 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.45%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.97%) MRICS
7 4 (0.97%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.21%) Automotive SPICE
2 5 (1.21%) ISO 26262
3 4 (0.97%) QA
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) GMP
4 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) COSHH
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.48%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.45%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.21%) Ansible
3 3 (0.73%) Grafana
3 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.73%) Terraform
4 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.48%) Puppet
4 2 (0.48%) SCOM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (1.94%) Allen-Bradley
1 8 (1.94%) Rockwell
1 8 (1.94%) Siemens
2 7 (1.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.21%) Databricks
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.21%) Oracle
3 5 (1.21%) SAP
4 4 (0.97%) NEC
4 4 (0.97%) YouTube
5 3 (0.73%) Juniper
6 2 (0.48%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.48%) Splunk
7 1 (0.24%) BMC
7 1 (0.24%) BT
7 1 (0.24%) Civica
7 1 (0.24%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.24%) Remedy
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce