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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 127 144
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -19
Permanent jobs citing Validation 32 45 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.94% 1.10% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.32% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 29
10th Percentile £39,525 £33,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,563 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -43.32% -8.93%
75th Percentile £68,125 £45,810 £82,797
90th Percentile £95,000 £53,750 £89,417
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +1.67%

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 2,909 3,410 2,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.36% 83.35% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 1,433 2,170
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,100 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 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 November 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 +8 21 £57,617 +44.04% 12
North Yorkshire -3 8 £95,000 +130.30% 4
South Yorkshire -8 2 £41,000 -14.54% 10
East Yorkshire -1 1 £65,000 +73.33%
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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.50%) CMS
2 4 (12.50%) Headless CMS
3 3 (9.38%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.13%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Mathcad
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) dbt
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Tableau
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 4 (12.50%) Data Vault
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (9.38%) Apache Iceberg
3 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) GIS
5 1 (3.13%) Looker
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Retail
6 2 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Analyst
2 11 (34.38%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Data Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Quality Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Administrator
6 3 (9.38%) Salesforce Administrator
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Marketing Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) Operational Security Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Security Operations Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) GIS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 4 (12.50%) Next.js
1 4 (12.50%) React
1 4 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) JWT
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.25%) SCADA
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Data Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Data Modelling
4 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (21.88%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 5 (15.63%) Data Management
7 5 (15.63%) Data Science
7 5 (15.63%) ETL
8 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
8 4 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
8 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (6.25%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) IBM
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) ESRI
3 1 (3.13%) MathWorks
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk