The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 95 120 108
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -12
Permanent jobs citing Validation 28 8 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.556% 0.398% 0.666%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.039% 0.518% 0.971%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 11
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -2.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,900 £29,250 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1373 1545 1133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.32% 76.94% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1057 1355 965
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,350
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
North West

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Validation across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Validation Salary Histogram

Validation
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Cheshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester +6 21 £28,500 -2.56%
Knutsford +10 3 £50,000 +8.69%
Warrington +21 1 £40,000 -
Validation
North West

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 22 (48.89%) Data Validation
2 21 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (44.44%) Migration
3 20 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 14 (31.11%) IBM
4 14 (31.11%) WebSphere
5 11 (24.44%) Tivoli
5 11 (24.44%) AIX
5 11 (24.44%) Business Continuity
6 9 (20.00%) Finance
6 9 (20.00%) High Availability
7 8 (17.78%) WAN Optimisation
7 8 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (17.78%) Isilon
7 8 (17.78%) Riverbed
7 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
7 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (17.78%) VMware
7 8 (17.78%) Cisco
7 8 (17.78%) Xen
7 8 (17.78%) Linux
7 8 (17.78%) Cognos
7 8 (17.78%) WAN
7 8 (17.78%) EMC
7 8 (17.78%) Juniper
7 8 (17.78%) SAN
7 8 (17.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
7 8 (17.78%) Lotus
7 8 (17.78%) Service Management

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 14 (31.11%) WebSphere
2 6 (13.33%) Middleware
3 2 (4.444%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.222%) LAMP
4 1 (2.222%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.667%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (6.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 3 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (6.667%) Apache
1 3 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.222%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (17.78%) WAN
1 8 (17.78%) SAN
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) HTTP
3 4 (8.889%) Internet
4 3 (6.667%) SSL
4 3 (6.667%) LDAP
5 1 (2.222%) Network Security
5 1 (2.222%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.222%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Selenium
1 1 (2.222%) Cucumber
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (8.889%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.444%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) Analyst
1 22 (48.89%) Data Analyst
2 20 (44.44%) Business Analyst
3 12 (26.67%) Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Sales Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Technical Consultant
5 5 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (8.889%) Support Specialist
7 2 (4.444%) Architect
7 2 (4.444%) Tester
7 2 (4.444%) Middleware Architect
7 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Architect
8 1 (2.222%) Penetration Tester
8 1 (2.222%) SAS Programmer
8 1 (2.222%) Information Security Consultant
8 1 (2.222%) Salesforce.com Administrator
8 1 (2.222%) Middleware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) Tandem
1 3 (6.667%) Mathematics
1 3 (6.667%) Statistics
1 3 (6.667%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.444%) Economics
3 1 (2.222%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.222%) Life Science
3 1 (2.222%) Open Source
3 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) AIX
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 4 (8.889%) UNIX
3 4 (8.889%) Windows
4 3 (6.667%) HPUX
4 3 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Data Validation
2 21 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (44.44%) Migration
3 20 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 11 (24.44%) Business Continuity
5 9 (20.00%) High Availability
6 8 (17.78%) WAN Optimisation
6 8 (17.78%) Service Management
6 8 (17.78%) ITSM
7 6 (13.33%) Information Security
8 5 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
9 4 (8.889%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (8.889%) Document Management
9 4 (8.889%) Risk Assessment
10 3 (6.667%) Content Management
10 3 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (6.667%) Service Delivery
10 3 (6.667%) Project Management
10 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
11 2 (4.444%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 4 (8.889%) Java
3 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.444%) PHP
4 2 (4.444%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.222%) Ruby
5 1 (2.222%) Perl
5 1 (2.222%) C
5 1 (2.222%) C++
5 1 (2.222%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.444%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.889%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (8.889%) GAMP
2 4 (8.889%) GMP
3 1 (2.222%) CDISC
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (17.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Tivoli
2 8 (17.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (6.667%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) IBM
2 8 (17.78%) Isilon
2 8 (17.78%) Riverbed
2 8 (17.78%) VMware
2 8 (17.78%) Cisco
2 8 (17.78%) Cognos
2 8 (17.78%) EMC
2 8 (17.78%) Juniper
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Lotus
3 3 (6.667%) Sun
3 3 (6.667%) JBoss
3 3 (6.667%) Cognizant
4 2 (4.444%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.222%) SAP
Knutsford, Cheshire
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Posted: 22 May 2013