The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Nottinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 31 34 35
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing Validation 11 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 3.143% 1.071% 0.643%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.314% 1.508% 0.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £350 £338 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -15.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £342 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.24% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Average hourly rate £29.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +10.29%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
255 199 202
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 72.86% 71.07% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 106 98
Average daily rate £344 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.42% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £259 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £435 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% -39.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.65 £8.50 £10.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £94.00 £56.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Validation
East Midlands

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Validation Hourly Rate Trend

Validation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottingham +4 11 £350 +3.70% 3
Validation
East Midlands

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (60.00%) UNIX
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
1 12 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (45.00%) IBM
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco
4 7 (35.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (30.00%) Tivoli
5 6 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (30.00%) IIS
5 6 (30.00%) Web Services
5 6 (30.00%) Citrix
5 6 (30.00%) MetaFrame
5 6 (30.00%) Apache
5 6 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (20.00%) Oracle
7 3 (15.00%) Process Management
7 3 (15.00%) Automotive
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.00%) Use Case
7 3 (15.00%) F5
7 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Retail
8 2 (10.00%) Workflow
8 2 (10.00%) SQL
8 2 (10.00%) Legal
8 2 (10.00%) NetApp
8 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (30.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) IIS
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.000%) Firewall
2 1 (5.000%) LAN
2 1 (5.000%) VPN
2 1 (5.000%) SAN
2 1 (5.000%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Automotive
2 3 (15.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Vendor Manager
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Programme Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Life Science
1 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) UNIX
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (15.00%) Process Management
2 3 (15.00%) Use Case
2 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.00%) Workflow
4 1 (5.000%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.000%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (30.00%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (45.00%) IBM
3 7 (35.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) Citrix
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
6 3 (15.00%) F5
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
8 1 (5.000%) McAfee