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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 115 159
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 +10
Permanent jobs citing Validation 43 21 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.84% 0.95% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.00% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 33 6 45
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,176
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -7.82% -21.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £60,000 £57,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £64,375 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.33%

All Process & 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 3,715 2,105 4,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.71% 94.86% 84.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,234 3,633
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,348
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Validation job vacancy trend 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 4 April 2026.

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 4 April 2026. 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 -12 30 £55,000 -12.00% 27
North Yorkshire -10 7 £95,000 +100.00% 3
South Yorkshire -32 4 £48,250 -5.85% 16
East Yorkshire -19 1 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Validation
England

Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 8 (18.60%) CMS
2 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 4 (9.30%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.33%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.33%) Navisworks
3 1 (2.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG-BP
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
1 9 (20.93%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.63%) SaaS
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) iPaaS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) dbt
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Power BI
2 6 (13.95%) Tableau
3 4 (9.30%) Metadata
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
4 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.33%) Looker
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (25.58%) Retail
5 9 (20.93%) Legal
6 5 (11.63%) Law
7 4 (9.30%) Marketing
8 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
9 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.33%) Advertising
10 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Analyst
2 12 (27.91%) Business Analyst
3 11 (25.58%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 5 (11.63%) HR Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) HR Data Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.98%) Product Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) SaaS Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) SaaS Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) GraphQL
1 7 (16.28%) Next.js
1 7 (16.28%) React
1 7 (16.28%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) CSS
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) XBRL
3 2 (4.65%) XML
4 1 (2.33%) FHIR
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) JWT
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) Pandas
4 1 (2.33%) SAML
4 1 (2.33%) SAP ALE
4 1 (2.33%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (16.28%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) IoT
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
5 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
1 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Data Governance
2 13 (30.23%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (30.23%) Data Modelling
3 12 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
4 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 10 (23.26%) Analytics
5 10 (23.26%) Customer Requirements
5 10 (23.26%) E-Commerce
6 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (16.28%) API Integration
8 7 (16.28%) Customer Engagement
8 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
8 7 (16.28%) Presales
8 7 (16.28%) Visualisation
9 5 (11.63%) Data Privacy
9 5 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (11.63%) DevOps
9 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) SQL
2 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.63%) Python
5 1 (2.33%) ABAP
5 1 (2.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) CBAP
2 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.95%) GDPR
3 5 (11.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.98%) QA
5 1 (2.33%) GRC
5 1 (2.33%) ISO 19650
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Grafana
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) Planon
4 1 (2.33%) Ariba
4 1 (2.33%) Foundry
4 1 (2.33%) Palantir
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk