Validation Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 68 57 48
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -9
Contract jobs citing Validation 4 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.528% 1.011% 1.149%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.719% 1.413% 1.707%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
Average daily rate £325 £318 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.36% +49.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £341 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £20.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -6.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +10.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Validation
West Yorkshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) Firewall
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (9.091%) Electronics
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) MCSA
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (9.091%) CRM
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 1 (9.091%) .NET
4 1 (9.091%) C++
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
4 1 (9.091%) GSM
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) Active Directory

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (9.091%) CSS
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
1 1 (9.091%) HTML
1 1 (9.091%) Ajax
1 1 (9.091%) jQuery
1 1 (9.091%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) GSM
1 1 (9.091%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.091%) Electronics
4 1 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.091%) German Language
4 1 (9.091%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Product Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Account Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Programmer
2 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Trainer
2 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Programmer
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Senior Oracle Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Support Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Software Programmer
2 1 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Design Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (9.091%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) NHS
1 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
1 1 (9.091%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Use Case
1 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
1 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Change Control
1 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 1 (9.091%) Change Management
2 1 (9.091%) CRM
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) User Stories
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Document Management
2 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
2 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C++
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) MCSA
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Hyperion
2 1 (9.091%) Salesforce.com
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