Validation Jobs in the Midlands

Validation
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 89 86
Rank change year-on-year -42 -3 +56
Permanent jobs citing Validation 240 327 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.84% 3.82% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.96% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 97 54 201
10th Percentile £36,300 £32,578 £35,125
25th Percentile £40,750 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,950 £83,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +9.65% +3.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,426 8,254 10,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.81% 96.48% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,458 4,379 6,963
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,276 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,374 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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 -71 133 £54,000 -1.82% 93
East Midlands +39 107 £42,500 -10.53% 50
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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 9 (3.75%) IIS
2 7 (2.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (4.58%) Simulink
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.67%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.25%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.92%) Azure
2 9 (3.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 6 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.67%) GitHub
4 4 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (1.25%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.42%) Asana
7 1 (0.42%) AWS
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.42%) GCP
7 1 (0.42%) Mavenlink
7 1 (0.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.92%) VSAT
2 14 (5.83%) Firewall
3 9 (3.75%) WAN
4 4 (1.67%) DHCP
4 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.25%) 802.11
5 3 (1.25%) VLAN
5 3 (1.25%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.83%) Network Security
7 1 (0.42%) Internet
7 1 (0.42%) LAN
7 1 (0.42%) Modbus
7 1 (0.42%) MQTT
7 1 (0.42%) VPN
7 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.50%) Power BI
3 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) Big Data
5 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata
5 1 (0.42%) MS Access
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.42%) Power Query
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.33%) JIRA
2 5 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) CANoe
4 1 (0.42%) Git
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
General
1 60 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 38 (15.83%) Social Skills
4 35 (14.58%) Automotive
5 33 (13.75%) Manufacturing
6 32 (13.33%) Finance
7 31 (12.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (8.33%) Electronics
9 13 (5.42%) Legal
10 12 (5.00%) Retail
11 6 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.08%) Aeronautics
12 5 (2.08%) Aviation
12 5 (2.08%) Billing
12 5 (2.08%) Marketing
12 5 (2.08%) Military
13 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.25%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.25%) Police
14 3 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (17.92%) Lead
2 40 (16.67%) Architect
3 31 (12.92%) Analyst
3 31 (12.92%) Software Architect
4 27 (11.25%) Technical Leader
5 22 (9.17%) Senior
6 18 (7.50%) Research Analyst
7 17 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Administrator
8 9 (3.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Validation Engineer
11 6 (2.50%) Hardware Engineer
11 6 (2.50%) QA Leader
11 6 (2.50%) QA Manager
11 6 (2.50%) Salesforce Analyst
11 6 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.58%) EDI
2 10 (4.17%) REST
3 9 (3.75%) WebRTC
4 3 (1.25%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.25%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.42%) .NET
5 1 (0.42%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) HTML5
5 1 (0.42%) Kafka
5 1 (0.42%) POSIX
5 1 (0.42%) React
5 1 (0.42%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.50%) Life Science
3 9 (3.75%) Clustering
4 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.50%) Infotainment
6 4 (1.67%) CMDB
7 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Pricing Data
8 2 (0.83%) SCADA
8 2 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.83%) State Machine
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.42%) FPGA
9 1 (0.42%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.42%) Robotics
9 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.33%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.83%) Chemistry
3 36 (15.00%) Requirements Management
4 35 (14.58%) Network Architecture
5 33 (13.75%) Agile
6 32 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 32 (13.33%) Verification and Validation
7 31 (12.92%) Actionable Insight
7 31 (12.92%) Model Validation
7 31 (12.92%) Network Management
7 31 (12.92%) Technical Architecture
8 28 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (11.67%) Systems Engineering
9 24 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (9.58%) Project Management
11 18 (7.50%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (6.25%) Data Management
12 15 (6.25%) Software Engineering
13 14 (5.83%) Information Assurance
13 14 (5.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.42%) SQL
2 23 (9.58%) MATLAB
3 13 (5.42%) Python
4 9 (3.75%) C
5 6 (2.50%) C++
5 6 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.08%) Java
7 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.25%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.42%) ABAP
9 1 (0.42%) C#
9 1 (0.42%) Lua
9 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (42.92%) Degree
2 33 (13.75%) SC Cleared
2 33 (13.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.92%) CISM
4 7 (2.92%) CISSP
4 7 (2.92%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.08%) CISA
6 5 (2.08%) PCI QSA
7 4 (1.67%) HND
8 3 (1.25%) CCNA
8 3 (1.25%) CCNP
8 3 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CBAP
9 1 (0.42%) IIBA
9 1 (0.42%) MBA
9 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.33%) GMP
1 20 (8.33%) QA
2 18 (7.50%) GLP
3 13 (5.42%) Def Stans
4 10 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.08%) NIST
5 5 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.67%) MISRA
6 4 (1.67%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.67%) SLA
7 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.25%) Automotive SPICE
7 3 (1.25%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.83%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.83%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.42%) TickIT
System Software
1 9 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.50%) Firmware
3 5 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.42%) Docker
5 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.25%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.42%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.17%) CheckPoint
3 10 (4.17%) VMware
4 7 (2.92%) Databricks
5 6 (2.50%) Minitab
6 4 (1.67%) Apple
6 4 (1.67%) QNX
6 4 (1.67%) Quadient
6 4 (1.67%) Siemens
7 3 (1.25%) ANSYS
7 3 (1.25%) Cisco
7 3 (1.25%) NEC
7 3 (1.25%) SAP
7 3 (1.25%) Veeam
8 2 (0.83%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle
9 1 (0.42%) Dell
9 1 (0.42%) EMC
9 1 (0.42%) IBM