Validation Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 28 31 39
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.081% 1.773% 0.340%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.361% 2.525% 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.96% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-18.91% +13.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 147 198 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 79.46% 70.21% 72.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 106 104
Average daily rate £350 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Validation
East of England

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Validation across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Validation Jobs Demand Trend

Validation
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Validation across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Validation Daily Rate Trend

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Validation across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Validation also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Validation.

1 2 (33.33%) QA
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Wise Package Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) TickIT
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Validation also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
1 1 (16.67%) AdminStudio
1 1 (16.67%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (16.67%) TickIT
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
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