City of London Data Validation Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Validation skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Validation over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Brighton Bristol City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Hounslow Kent Leicestershire London Midlands Norfolk Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Tadworth Thames Valley UK West Lothian West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	198	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.091 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£525	-
Average daily rate	£563	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£600	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£211
% change on same period last year	+42.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£11.67	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-46.97 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4377	3584
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.220 %	3.620 %
Daily rates quoted	2539	1510
Average minimum daily rate	£418	£440
Average daily rate	£457	£471
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£497	£501
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.26	£23.43
Average hourly rate	£25.89	£25.53
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.52	£27.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Validation across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Validation across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Validation across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Validation.

1 8 (100.00 %) Validation 2 5 (62.50 %) Banking 3 4 (50.00 %) SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) Finance 5 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 5 2 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (25.00 %) QA 5 2 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (25.00 %) CRM 5 2 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (12.50 %) Reuters 6 1 (12.50 %) Bloomberg 6 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 6 1 (12.50 %) Basel II

6 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (12.50 %) ETL 6 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 6 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 6 1 (12.50 %) Investment Management 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Mapping 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Integration 6 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk 6 1 (12.50 %) Asset Management 6 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Mart

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (12.50 %) ETL 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Mart	General 1 5 (62.50 %) Banking 2 3 (37.50 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Data Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Architect 3 2 (25.00 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Architect 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Data Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Banking Business Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Team Leader 4 1 (12.50 %) Risk Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Integration 1 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (100.00 %) Validation 2 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) CRM 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (12.50 %) Investment Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Mapping 3 1 (12.50 %) Asset Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) QA 2 1 (12.50 %) Basel II	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Reuters 1 1 (12.50 %) Bloomberg 1 1 (12.50 %) Sybase