Validation Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 103 90 93
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +3
Contract jobs citing Validation 19 19 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.769% 0.719% 0.840%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.130% 1.120% 1.251%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 11
Average daily rate £438 £325 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% -15.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £206 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £430 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £341 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +10.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Validation
UK

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Validation Daily Rate Trend

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Validation across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland Validation Daily Rate Histogram

Validation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Edinburgh +5 7 £475 +21.79%
Glasgow -18 5 £300 -
Highlands +1 2 £330 +8.19%
West Lothian - 2 £360 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Validation
UK

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 11 (37.93%) Banking
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (27.59%) Data Mining
3 8 (27.59%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (24.14%) Degree
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) QA
7 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Retail
8 3 (10.34%) CruiseControl
8 3 (10.34%) Subversion
8 3 (10.34%) Bugzilla
8 3 (10.34%) Change Management
8 3 (10.34%) Windows XP
8 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
8 3 (10.34%) J2EE
8 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
8 3 (10.34%) Sybase
8 3 (10.34%) Business Objects
8 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
8 3 (10.34%) Windows
8 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.34%) Windows Vista

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (10.34%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
1 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
1 3 (10.34%) GlassFish
2 1 (3.448%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Office
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.448%) MS Project
2 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Data Mining
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.897%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) CruiseControl
1 3 (10.34%) Subversion
1 3 (10.34%) Bugzilla
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) Hudson
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) Trac
General
1 11 (37.93%) Banking
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Retail
4 2 (6.897%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.448%) Legal
5 1 (3.448%) Front Office
5 1 (3.448%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.448%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) Business Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) Architect
2 8 (27.59%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Validation Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Report Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Computer Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Software Tester
5 1 (3.448%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Business Consultant
5 1 (3.448%) Data Modeller
5 1 (3.448%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.897%) Visualisation
2 2 (6.897%) Derivative
2 2 (6.897%) SCADA
2 2 (6.897%) Ergonomics
3 1 (3.448%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.448%) Equities
3 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.448%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.448%) Neural Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows XP
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
1 3 (10.34%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (27.59%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
3 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Change Management
5 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.897%) Data Validation
6 2 (6.897%) Change Control
6 2 (6.897%) Migration
6 2 (6.897%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (6.897%) Project Management
6 2 (6.897%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.448%) Workflow
7 1 (3.448%) Business Continuity
7 1 (3.448%) Programme Management
7 1 (3.448%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 2 (6.897%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) ISEB
3 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.448%) PMP
3 1 (3.448%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.448%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.897%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (3.448%) GAMP
3 1 (3.448%) GMP
3 1 (3.448%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.34%) Sybase
1 3 (10.34%) Business Objects
2 1 (3.448%) VMware
2 1 (3.448%) Reuters
2 1 (3.448%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.448%) Siebel
2 1 (3.448%) SAP
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle
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