The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 44 35 39
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +4
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.491% 2.195% 2.785%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.704% 3.629% 4.564%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £400 £455 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% +121.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.96% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £35.22 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +35.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-18.91% +13.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
284 248 241
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 69.78% 60.49% 61.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 123 110
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £137 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 35 44
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.94 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £39.69 £39.30
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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Validation Daily Rate Trend

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Validation across the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Essex Validation Daily Rate Histogram

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chelmsford -2 1 £500 +14.28%
Validation
East of England

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) FatWire
2 1 (33.33%) Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Dojo
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) MooTools
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (33.33%) Sass
2 1 (33.33%) LESS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Web Design
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Image Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) FatWire
1 1 (33.33%) Omniture
1 1 (33.33%) Google