The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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 19 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -
Contract jobs citing Validation 9 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 6.207% 1.613% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 2.581% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-17.80% +12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 155 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 61.38% 62.50% 62.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 53
Average daily rate £350 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 8
Average hourly rate £15.16 £29.50 £17.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.61% +67.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.50 £13.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Validation
East of England

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Ipswich +7 6 £375 -
Bury St Edmunds - 2 - -
Validation
East of England

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
2 4 (36.36%) LINQ
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (36.36%) QA
2 4 (36.36%) WCF
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Silverlight
5 1 (9.091%) Cryptography
5 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) C++
5 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.091%) Embedded C++
5 1 (9.091%) HP
5 1 (9.091%) Firmware

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (54.55%) ASP.NET
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
2 4 (36.36%) LINQ
2 4 (36.36%) WCF
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (36.36%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (9.091%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
1 6 (54.55%) C# Developer
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Developer
2 5 (45.45%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.091%) QA Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Validation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Cryptography
1 1 (9.091%) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) C++
3 1 (9.091%) Embedded C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.091%) HP
Ipswich, East Anglia
If you haven't got direct TLS experience, you should have done cryptography programming... You should be a team player, who can work with Embedded Firmware Engineers, Electronics...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013