The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 24 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 Halifax 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 19 30 22
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing Validation 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 0.833% 0.441% 1.639%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.111% 0.532% 2.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £313 £665 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.00% +66.25%
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 £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-17.80% +12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
90 188 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 75.00% 82.82% 69.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 160 56
Average daily rate £380 £390 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £13.50 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +92.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Validation
West Yorkshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Validation Daily Rate Trend

Validation
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Data Validation
2 4 (80.00%) Data Extraction
2 4 (80.00%) Fraud Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Retail

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Business Consultant
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Consultant
2 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
1 4 (80.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (80.00%) Fraud Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation