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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 125 130
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Validation 99 28 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.31% 0.84% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.95% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 64 17 13
10th Percentile £29,300 £39,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £43,447
Median % change year-on-year - -2.18% -37.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £79,801 £64,390 £63,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

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 5,101 2,934 3,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.32% 87.61% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,765 1,390 1,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £41,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -5 47 £42,500 - 79
South Yorkshire -12 22 £43,000 +4.88% 41
East Yorkshire - 10 £70,000 - 3
North Yorkshire +7 6 £40,000 -36.66% 13
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 4 (4.04%) CMS
1 4 (4.04%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
Applications
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.05%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (5.05%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.01%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.01%) EPLAN
4 1 (1.01%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.04%) iTrent
3 3 (3.03%) SAP MDG
3 3 (3.03%) SAP MDG-BP
3 3 (3.03%) SystmOne
4 1 (1.01%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) Azure
2 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.05%) AWS
4 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.04%) SaaS
4 4 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.03%) Serverless
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.02%) GCP
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) GitHub
7 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Internet
2 2 (2.02%) HTTP
3 1 (1.01%) Broadband
3 1 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.01%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
3 1 (1.01%) WebEx
3 1 (1.01%) Wireless
3 1 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Power BI
2 7 (7.07%) Metadata
3 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.02%) Power Query
4 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.02%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.01%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.03%) GitLab
3 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.03%) JMeter
4 2 (2.02%) Appium
4 2 (2.02%) Ranorex
4 2 (2.02%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
5 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.24%) Finance
3 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.16%) Manufacturing
5 15 (15.15%) Marketing
6 10 (10.10%) Electronics
6 10 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
8 7 (7.07%) Retail
9 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (6.06%) Law
10 4 (4.04%) Aerospace
10 4 (4.04%) Banking
11 2 (2.02%) Advertising
11 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.02%) French Language
11 2 (2.02%) Games
12 1 (1.01%) Aviation
12 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (13.13%) Test Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Analyst
3 10 (10.10%) Senior
3 10 (10.10%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) Lead
5 7 (7.07%) Consultant
5 7 (7.07%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) IT Support
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Administrator
7 5 (5.05%) Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Governance Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Business IT Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) IT Governance Manager
8 4 (4.04%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Pensions Administrator
8 4 (4.04%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) .NET
1 4 (4.04%) PySpark
2 3 (3.03%) .NET Core
2 3 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.03%) Entity Framework
2 3 (3.03%) Playwright
2 3 (3.03%) REST
2 3 (3.03%) SAP ALE
2 3 (3.03%) Web Dynpro
2 3 (3.03%) XBRL
2 3 (3.03%) XML
3 2 (2.02%) JSON
3 2 (2.02%) pytest
3 2 (2.02%) RESTful
4 1 (1.01%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Analogue Electronics
3 4 (4.04%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.04%) FPGA
3 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.01%) Lidar
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (20.20%) Data Validation
3 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.15%) Test Automation
5 14 (14.14%) Collaborative Working
5 14 (14.14%) Data Analysis
6 13 (13.13%) Agile
6 13 (13.13%) AI
7 12 (12.12%) Data Governance
7 12 (12.12%) Migration
7 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (11.11%) Analytics
8 11 (11.11%) Data Management
8 11 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 11 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 10 (10.10%) Data Integration
10 9 (9.09%) ETL
10 9 (9.09%) Verification and Validation
11 8 (8.08%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.17%) SQL
2 14 (14.14%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) C
3 4 (4.04%) C#
4 3 (3.03%) ABAP
4 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.01%) VB
6 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.01%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.01%) HNC
5 1 (1.01%) HND
5 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.07%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (4.04%) Firmware
Vendors
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.13%) SAP
3 7 (7.07%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.04%) Adobe
4 4 (4.04%) Foundry
4 4 (4.04%) Oracle
4 4 (4.04%) Palantir
4 4 (4.04%) Samsung
4 4 (4.04%) TikTok
5 3 (3.03%) Ariba
5 3 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
7 1 (1.01%) Aruba
7 1 (1.01%) Atmel
7 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.01%) Juniper
7 1 (1.01%) NEC
7 1 (1.01%) Openreach
7 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.01%) Virgin Media