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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 125 148
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -6
Permanent jobs citing Validation 29 22 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.71% 0.88% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.95% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 43
10th Percentile £52,000 £37,055 £34,484
25th Percentile £57,500 £38,261 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,447 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -15.68% -23.66%
75th Percentile £95,000 £47,685 £57,250
90th Percentile - £48,324 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -11.41%

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 3,143 2,323 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.58% 93.11% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 1,042 3,131
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,950 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -18 20 £60,000 - 25
North Yorkshire +3 7 £95,000 +100.00% 9
East Yorkshire -10 1 £65,000 +73.33% 7
South Yorkshire -22 1 £65,000 +49.61% 25
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 7 (24.14%) CMS
2 5 (17.24%) Confluence
3 4 (13.79%) Headless CMS
4 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
5 2 (6.90%) Apache
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (3.45%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Navisworks
2 1 (3.45%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Power BI
2 6 (20.69%) Tableau
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.45%) Looker
5 1 (3.45%) Metadata
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 8 (27.59%) Retail
5 7 (24.14%) Legal
6 3 (10.34%) Marketing
7 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Advertising
8 1 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Analyst
2 12 (41.38%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Business Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Data Analyst
5 5 (17.24%) HR Analyst
5 5 (17.24%) HR Data Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Digital Transformation
8 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) GraphQL
1 7 (24.14%) Next.js
1 7 (24.14%) React
1 7 (24.14%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) JWT
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (34.48%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
3 9 (31.03%) Decision-Making
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (27.59%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (27.59%) Data Governance
5 7 (24.14%) Analytics
5 7 (24.14%) API Integration
5 7 (24.14%) Customer Engagement
5 7 (24.14%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) E-Commerce
5 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
5 7 (24.14%) Presales
6 6 (20.69%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) Data Privacy
7 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (20.69%) GDPR
3 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.90%) QA
5 1 (3.45%) GRC
5 1 (3.45%) ISO 19650
5 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Planon
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk