Verification and Validation Jobs in the West Midlands

Verification and Validation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Verification and Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Verification and Validation over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 165 207
Rank change year-on-year -46 +42 +35
Permanent jobs citing Verification and Validation 15 12 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.35% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.37% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 39
10th Percentile - - £40,932
25th Percentile - £51,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.70% -9.62%
75th Percentile - £59,000 £49,500
90th Percentile - £62,150 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,600 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.12% +11.36% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,678 3,218 7,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.43% 92.84% 97.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,070 2,550 4,643
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,050
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%

Verification and Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Verification and Validation in the West Midlands

Verification and Validation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Verification and Validation in the West Midlands

Verification and 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 Verification and Validation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Warwickshire -22 9 - - 4
Coventry +7 4 - - 1
Birmingham - 2 - -
Verification and Validation
England

Verification and 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Run
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.67%) Automotive
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Integration Engineer
1 14 (93.33%) Principal Engineer
1 14 (93.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 14 (93.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
1 14 (93.33%) Validation Engineer
2 13 (86.67%) System Verification Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) Django
1 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (6.67%) Flask
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Validation
2 14 (93.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (6.67%) OO
3 1 (6.67%) OOP
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum
3 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (6.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
1 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 14 (93.33%) Chartered Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) ISTQB
3 12 (80.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree