The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 22 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs citing Validation 7 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 3.590% 2.338% 0.347%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.036% 3.136% 0.602%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £342 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.24% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +10.29%
All Processes & Methodologies
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 287 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 71.28% 74.55% 57.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 147 74
Average daily rate £400 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £21.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.62% +26.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Validation
North East

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 - -
Validation
North East

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (57.14%) Citrix
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 7 (50.00%) XenServer
3 6 (42.86%) Data Mapping
4 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Management
4 4 (28.57%) RDF
4 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 3 (21.43%) OSPF
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (14.29%) CentOS
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) MySQL

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 2 (14.29%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) OSPF
2 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) BGP
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (7.143%) IPsec
3 1 (7.143%) HSRP
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.143%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) TOAD
3 1 (7.143%) BODI
3 1 (7.143%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Network Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Network Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Trainer
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) CentOS
2 2 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 6 (42.86%) Data Mapping
3 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Data Management
3 4 (28.57%) RDF
3 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
5 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Citrix
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) HP
6 1 (7.143%) Hyperion
6 1 (7.143%) Business Objects