Validation Job Trends in Yorkshire

Validation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Validation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 135 143
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 31 49 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.93% 0.99% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.25% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 37
10th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £40,000 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -35.20% +20.78%
75th Percentile £60,683 £55,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £63,705 £62,500 £89,417
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,877 3,913 3,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.74% 79.16% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,972 2,557
10th Percentile £26,010 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Validation in Yorkshire

Validation
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Validation

Validation
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Validation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Validation in Yorkshire

Validation
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Yorkshire +29 17 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North Yorkshire -2 10 £63,150 +14.82% 4
South Yorkshire -3 4 £41,750 -24.09% 10
Validation
England

Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Mathcad
1 1 (3.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
1 3 (9.68%) Serverless
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (6.45%) dbt
2 2 (6.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) Azure WebJobs
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) 5G
1 4 (12.90%) Bluetooth
1 4 (12.90%) GSM
1 4 (12.90%) LTE
1 4 (12.90%) UMTS
1 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (12.90%) Wireless
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Tableau
2 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Law
4 4 (12.90%) Electronics
4 4 (12.90%) Finance
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Publishing
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Data Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Data Quality Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Quality Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Administrator
4 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Administrator
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Marketing Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Operational Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Requirements Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Security Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Pandas
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.23%) Blazor
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) SignalR
2 1 (3.23%) Skia Graphics Library
2 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
2 1 (3.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) SCADA
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Migration
2 10 (32.26%) Data Cleansing
2 10 (32.26%) Data Migration
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Verification and Validation
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Data Management
5 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.13%) Data Validation
6 5 (16.13%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (16.13%) DevOps
6 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (16.13%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.90%) Coaching
7 4 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (12.90%) ETL
7 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) HND
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) ESRI
4 1 (3.23%) MathWorks
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle