The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 23 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -2
Contract jobs citing Validation 13 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.545% 1.794% 1.277%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.468% 2.532% 2.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £435 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-17.80% +12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
201 158 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 70.28% 70.85% 62.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 78 48
Average daily rate £351 £344 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.96% -1.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Validation
Nottinghamshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 12 (66.67%) UNIX
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
1 12 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (50.00%) IBM
4 7 (38.89%) Cisco
4 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
5 6 (33.33%) Tivoli
5 6 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (33.33%) IIS
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 6 (33.33%) Citrix
5 6 (33.33%) MetaFrame
5 6 (33.33%) Apache
5 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (22.22%) Oracle
7 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (16.67%) Process Management
7 3 (16.67%) Automotive
7 3 (16.67%) F5
7 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Use Case
7 3 (16.67%) Retail
8 2 (11.11%) Workflow
8 2 (11.11%) NetApp
8 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (11.11%) SQL
9 1 (5.556%) T-SQL

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) IIS
1 6 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.556%) LAN
2 1 (5.556%) VPN
2 1 (5.556%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 3 (16.67%) Automotive
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.556%) Legal
4 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Developer
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Contracts Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Life Science
1 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) UNIX
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Process Management
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 3 (16.67%) Use Case
3 2 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (5.556%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.556%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 6 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) IBM
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle
6 3 (16.67%) F5
7 2 (11.11%) NetApp
8 1 (5.556%) McAfee