The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 52 - 49
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Validation 3 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.566% - 1.144%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.783% - 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £206 - £141
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 - £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £231 - £164
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.61 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-15.75% +9.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Validation
Buckinghamshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
3 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) DHCP
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) HP
3 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Staffware
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MS Access
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Transition Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) HP
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy