The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Birmingham 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 45 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.413% 0.938% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.641% 1.392% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £450 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.71% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £334
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +9.48%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
312 431 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 64.46% 67.34% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 230 164
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £200 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £28.00 £15.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.66% -53.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £12.00 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £40.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Validation
West Midlands

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (33.33%) Pega
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Services Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega