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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 132 128
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Validation 93 29 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.21% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.98% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 61 17 14
10th Percentile £26,750 £39,000 £34,688
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £44,223
Median % change year-on-year - -3.90% -36.32%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £63,890 £62,000
England median annual salary £57,750 £55,000 £57,004
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.52% -12.30%

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 5,173 2,958 3,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.56% 87.49% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 1,379 1,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,202 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 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 2 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 -6 45 £42,500 - 73
South Yorkshire -11 21 £43,000 +4.88% 43
East Yorkshire - 10 £70,000 - 4
North Yorkshire +3 5 £40,000 -36.66% 20
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 2 (2.15%) CMS
1 2 (2.15%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.08%) IIS
2 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (21.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.38%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (5.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.08%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.08%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.38%) iTrent
2 5 (5.38%) SAP MDG
2 5 (5.38%) SAP MDG-BP
3 3 (3.23%) SystmOne
4 1 (1.08%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Azure
2 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.38%) AWS
3 5 (5.38%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (4.30%) SaaS
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.23%) Serverless
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.08%) GCP
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Internet
1 3 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) Power BI
2 4 (4.30%) Metadata
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.15%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.08%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.23%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) GitLab
2 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.23%) JMeter
3 2 (2.15%) Appium
3 2 (2.15%) Ranorex
3 2 (2.15%) Selenium
4 1 (1.08%) Postman
General
1 33 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.20%) Manufacturing
5 12 (12.90%) Marketing
6 9 (9.68%) Electronics
6 9 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (9.68%) Retail
7 8 (8.60%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.38%) Law
9 4 (4.30%) Aerospace
9 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.23%) Banking
11 2 (2.15%) Advertising
11 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Games
12 1 (1.08%) Aviation
12 1 (1.08%) French Language
12 1 (1.08%) Legal
12 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (15.05%) Analyst
2 13 (13.98%) Test Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Consultant
4 8 (8.60%) Lead
5 6 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 6 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Administrator
6 5 (5.38%) Governance Manager
6 5 (5.38%) IT Support
6 5 (5.38%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.38%) SAP MDG Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) HR Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) HR Data Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) IT Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) IT Governance Manager
7 4 (4.30%) Pensions Administrator
7 4 (4.30%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) SAP ALE
1 5 (5.38%) Web Dynpro
2 3 (3.23%) .NET
2 3 (3.23%) .NET Core
2 3 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.23%) Entity Framework
2 3 (3.23%) Playwright
2 3 (3.23%) PySpark
2 3 (3.23%) REST
2 3 (3.23%) XBRL
2 3 (3.23%) XML
3 2 (2.15%) JSON
3 2 (2.15%) pytest
3 2 (2.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.08%) FHIR
4 1 (1.08%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.38%) Replication
3 4 (4.30%) Analogue Electronics
3 4 (4.30%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.30%) FPGA
3 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 3 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) SCADA
4 3 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Lidar
6 1 (1.08%) PMI
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (20.43%) Data Validation
3 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.05%) Data Analysis
4 14 (15.05%) Data Governance
5 13 (13.98%) Agile
5 13 (13.98%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (12.90%) Analytics
6 12 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
8 10 (10.75%) Data Modelling
8 10 (10.75%) Mentoring
8 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (9.68%) AI
9 9 (9.68%) Data Management
9 9 (9.68%) Decision-Making
9 9 (9.68%) Verification and Validation
10 8 (8.60%) Data Collection
10 8 (8.60%) Physics
10 8 (8.60%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) SQL
2 10 (10.75%) Python
3 5 (5.38%) ABAP
4 4 (4.30%) C
5 3 (3.23%) C#
5 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) CBAP
4 1 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.08%) HNC
4 1 (1.08%) HND
4 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.08%) PhD
4 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 3 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (4.30%) Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) SAP
3 5 (5.38%) Ariba
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.23%) Rockwell
6 2 (2.15%) Adobe
6 2 (2.15%) Databricks
6 2 (2.15%) Foundry
6 2 (2.15%) Informatica
6 2 (2.15%) Palantir
6 2 (2.15%) Samsung
6 2 (2.15%) TikTok
7 1 (1.08%) Atmel
7 1 (1.08%) NEC
7 1 (1.08%) Openreach
7 1 (1.08%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.08%) Virgin Media