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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 122 136
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Validation 28 46 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.82% 1.08% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.34% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 34
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,438 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -42.40% -10.39%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,185 £81,526
90th Percentile £66,625 £65,000 £89,417
England median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.03% -12.00% +8.70%

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 2,979 3,426 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.23% 80.20% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 1,461 2,398
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 0 19 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North Yorkshire -10 6 £63,150 +53.09% 1
South Yorkshire -7 2 £41,000 -21.90% 2
East Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Mathcad
1 1 (3.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (7.14%) dbt
2 2 (7.14%) GitHub
2 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) 5G
1 2 (7.14%) Bluetooth
1 2 (7.14%) GSM
1 2 (7.14%) LTE
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
1 2 (7.14%) UMTS
1 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Tableau
2 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.14%) Data Vault
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) GIS
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (7.14%) Electronics
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Data Quality Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Quality Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Salesforce Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Operational Security Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Security Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JWT
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) SAML
2 1 (3.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
1 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 2 (7.14%) SCADA
1 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Migration
2 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) Data Migration
3 9 (32.14%) Data Cleansing
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (21.43%) Data Management
5 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (17.86%) Verification and Validation
6 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
7 4 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Data Validation
7 4 (14.29%) DevOps
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
8 3 (10.71%) ETL
8 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.14%) HND
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) ESRI
4 1 (3.57%) MathWorks
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk