The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 23 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 35 40 33
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Validation 8 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.778% 2.326% 0.513%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.150% 2.778% 0.680%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 1
Average salary £60,000 £58,750 £85,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.12% -30.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
254 288 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 88.19% 83.72% 75.38%
Number of salaries quoted 189 244 105
Average salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £46,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
London

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Validation Jobs Demand Trend

Validation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Validation across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Validation across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Validation Salary Histogram

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Validation.

1 28 (100.00%) Finance
2 20 (71.43%) Banking
3 19 (67.86%) Investment Banking
4 18 (64.29%) Degree
5 11 (39.29%) Financial Institution
6 10 (35.71%) Change Management
6 10 (35.71%) .NET
6 10 (35.71%) Oracle
6 10 (35.71%) Business Objects
6 10 (35.71%) UNIX
6 10 (35.71%) Windows
6 10 (35.71%) Solaris
6 10 (35.71%) QA
6 10 (35.71%) Software Packaging
6 10 (35.71%) Release Management
6 10 (35.71%) Basel III
6 10 (35.71%) Software Deployment
7 9 (32.14%) Unit Testing
7 9 (32.14%) System Testing
7 9 (32.14%) Data Validation
7 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (32.14%) Credit Risk
7 9 (32.14%) OO
7 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
7 9 (32.14%) FTP
7 9 (32.14%) XML
7 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
7 9 (32.14%) C#
7 9 (32.14%) Back Office

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (35.71%) .NET
1 10 (35.71%) Software Packaging
2 9 (32.14%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.00%) Mathematica
2 2 (7.143%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
1 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
General
1 28 (100.00%) Finance
2 20 (71.43%) Banking
3 19 (67.86%) Investment Banking
4 11 (39.29%) Financial Institution
5 9 (32.14%) Back Office
6 1 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Release Manager
2 9 (32.14%) C# Architect
2 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Architect
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
2 9 (32.14%) Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Credit Risk
2 7 (25.00%) Market Risk
2 7 (25.00%) Physics
3 2 (7.143%) Statistics
3 2 (7.143%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.571%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) UNIX
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
1 10 (35.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Change Management
1 10 (35.71%) Release Management
1 10 (35.71%) Software Deployment
2 9 (32.14%) Unit Testing
2 9 (32.14%) System Testing
2 9 (32.14%) Data Validation
2 9 (32.14%) OO
2 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
2 9 (32.14%) Risk Management
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.571%) Stress Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Regression Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) Econometrics
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) C++
2 8 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 7 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (7.143%) VBA
5 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) QA
1 10 (35.71%) Basel III
2 9 (32.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (7.143%) Basel II
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
1 10 (35.71%) Business Objects