The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 72 56 56
Rank change year-on-year
-16 0
Contract jobs citing Validation 5 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.521% 0.510% 0.437%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.769% 0.753% 0.637%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.61 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-15.75% +9.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
650 531 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.78% 67.64% 68.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 284 274
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Validation
Scotland

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) QA
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) Hudson
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Trac
2 3 (33.33%) GlassFish
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 3 (33.33%) J2EE
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Sybase
2 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Bugzilla
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) GlassFish
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Hudson
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Trac
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) CruiseControl
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
1 3 (33.33%) Bugzilla
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Neural Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Vista
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Insight
4 1 (11.11%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Logistics
4 1 (11.11%) BCP
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Sybase
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware