Validation Contracts in South Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 17 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 South Wales 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 37 31 45
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +14
Contract jobs citing Validation 2 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.654% 2.326% 0.248%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.980% 3.488% 0.413%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £240 £505 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.47% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.96% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-18.91% +13.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 204 258 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 66.67% 66.67% 60.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 142 122
Average daily rate £375 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Validation
Wales

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 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
Newport +2 1 £240 -
Validation
Wales

Validation
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
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