The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 19 30 29
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Contract jobs citing Validation 4 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.667% 1.533% 1.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.810% 2.174% 1.681%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £301 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.20% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £341 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +10.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
105 184 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 70.00% 70.50% 61.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 106 50
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £238 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £481 £550 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -68.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Validation
Tyne and Wear

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (62.50%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 4 (50.00%) XenServer
3 3 (37.50%) Data Mapping
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (25.00%) TOAD
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) ASP
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (12.50%) Nagios
5 1 (12.50%) RDF
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) Hyperion

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (25.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) HSRP
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Trainer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Data Mapping
3 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) RDF
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Hyperion