Peterborough Validation Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Validation skills within the Peterborough 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 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crawley Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Feltham Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Oldham Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Surrey Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	16	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.197 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£303
% change on same period last year	+13.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	-
Average hourly rate	£26.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.43	£35.70
% change on same period last year	-14.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Peterborough
Matching contract IT job ads	61	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.093 %
Daily rates quoted	9	33
Average minimum daily rate	£518	£400
Average daily rate	£523	£424
% change on same period last year	+23.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£528	£448
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.09	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£22.33	£25.92
% change on same period last year	-13.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.57	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.81
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (88.89 %) Electronics 2 3 (33.33 %) Automotive 2 3 (33.33 %) Electric 3 1 (11.11 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (11.11 %) Six Sigma

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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.

General 1 8 (88.89 %) Electronics 2 3 (33.33 %) Automotive 2 3 (33.33 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 8 (88.89 %) Systems Engineer 1 8 (88.89 %) Electronics Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (11.11 %) Six Sigma 1 1 (11.11 %) Performance Testing