Validation Job Trends in Gateshead

Validation
Tyne and Wear > Gateshead

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gateshead requiring Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gateshead 2.37% - 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £117,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.32% -33.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gateshead

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 Gateshead.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 120 22 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gateshead 71.01% 88.00% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 74 16 32
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,000 £24,960
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,125 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% -12.70%
75th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £48,125 £53,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -14.29%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gateshead

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Gateshead

Validation
Salary Trend in Gateshead

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gateshead citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gateshead citing Validation

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gateshead 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Building Information Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) ANSYS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft