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The table below looks at the demand for Validation skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkValidation
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank4337
Rank change on same period last yearDown-6
Matching contract IT job ads88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.011 %0.008 %
As % of the category below1.790 %2.556 %
Daily rates quoted02
Average minimum daily rate-£200
Average daily rate-£200
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£200
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£296
% change on same period last year+14.63 %
Hourly rates quoted20
Average minimum hourly rate£27.50-
Average hourly rate£28.75-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£30.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.34£33.63
% change on same period last year-3.85 %
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads447313
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.629 %0.316 %
Daily rates quoted8781
Average minimum daily rate£380£318
Average daily rate£403£335
% change on same period last year+20.38 %
Average maximum daily rate£426£351
UK excluding London average daily rate£377£370
% change on same period last year+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted2915
Average minimum hourly rate£28.40£33.88
Average hourly rate£29.83£34.57
% change on same period last year-13.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.26£35.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.44£30.00
% change on same period last year-1.89 %
Validation South EastValidation
South East

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.

Validation
Demand Trend

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

Middlesex Validation Demand Trend

Validation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Middlesex Validation Daily Rate Trend

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

16 (40.00 %)SC Cleared
16 (40.00 %)Security Cleared
25 (33.33 %)Government
34 (26.67 %)Change Management
34 (26.67 %)Service Management
34 (26.67 %)Incident Management
34 (26.67 %)Problem Management
34 (26.67 %)SAP
43 (20.00 %)ABAP
43 (20.00 %)Oracle
43 (20.00 %)BPR
43 (20.00 %)Pharmaceutical
43 (20.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
52 (13.33 %)Release Management
52 (13.33 %)SQL
52 (13.33 %)Finance
52 (13.33 %)Oracle 10g
52 (13.33 %)SAP BW
52 (13.33 %)SAP APO
52 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
52 (13.33 %)SQL Server
52 (13.33 %)UNIX
52 (13.33 %)Windows
52 (13.33 %)Linux
52 (13.33 %)Datawarehouse
52 (13.33 %)Windows XP
52 (13.33 %)N-Tier
52 (13.33 %)RDBMS
61 (6.667 %)Spreadsheet
61 (6.667 %)Cisco

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (6.667 %)HTML
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (6.667 %)MS Office
11 (6.667 %)Spreadsheet
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (13.33 %)SAP APO
21 (6.667 %)SAP R/3
21 (6.667 %)SAP SD
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (6.667 %)VoIP
11 (6.667 %)WAN
11 (6.667 %)NetScreen
11 (6.667 %)IP Telephony
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (13.33 %)Datawarehouse
12 (13.33 %)RDBMS
12 (13.33 %)Oracle 10g
12 (13.33 %)SAP BW
12 (13.33 %)SQL Server
21 (6.667 %)Oracle Reports
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (6.667 %)Oracle Forms
11 (6.667 %)TestDirector
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (33.33 %)Government
23 (20.00 %)Pharmaceutical
32 (13.33 %)Finance
41 (6.667 %)Electronics
41 (6.667 %)Telecoms
41 (6.667 %)Health
41 (6.667 %)Legal
41 (6.667 %)Manufacturing
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15 (33.33 %)Consultant
24 (26.67 %)SAP Consultant
32 (13.33 %)SAP APO Consultant
32 (13.33 %)Test Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Infrastructure Architect
41 (6.667 %)Oracle Portal Developer
41 (6.667 %)Validation Tester
41 (6.667 %)Voice Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Architect
41 (6.667 %)Tester
41 (6.667 %)Developer
41 (6.667 %)Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Test Manager
41 (6.667 %)Systems Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Senior Systems Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Infrastructure Engineer
41 (6.667 %)Service Manager
41 (6.667 %)Data Analyst
41 (6.667 %)Software Tester
41 (6.667 %)Oracle Developer
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (13.33 %)N-Tier
21 (6.667 %)Thin Client
21 (6.667 %)Handset
21 (6.667 %)Physics
21 (6.667 %)Computer Science
21 (6.667 %)Fat Client
21 (6.667 %)Video Conferencing
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (13.33 %)UNIX
12 (13.33 %)Windows
12 (13.33 %)Linux
12 (13.33 %)Windows XP
12 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (6.667 %)Windows Vista
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
16 (40.00 %)SC Cleared
16 (40.00 %)Security Cleared
24 (26.67 %)Incident Management
24 (26.67 %)Problem Management
24 (26.67 %)Service Management
24 (26.67 %)Change Management
33 (20.00 %)BPR
33 (20.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
42 (13.33 %)Release Management
51 (6.667 %)Business Intelligence
51 (6.667 %)Service Delivery
51 (6.667 %)Disaster Recovery
51 (6.667 %)Business Continuity
51 (6.667 %)Penetration Testing
51 (6.667 %)Logistics
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (20.00 %)ABAP
22 (13.33 %)SQL
31 (6.667 %)C
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (6.667 %)ISEB
11 (6.667 %)Degree
Middlesex IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (26.67 %)SAP
23 (20.00 %)Oracle
31 (6.667 %)Cisco
31 (6.667 %)Microsoft
31 (6.667 %)BMC