The first table below looks at the demand for Data Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Validation over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Validation
Rank 303 313 325
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 15 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.127% 0.084% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.164% 0.109% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 8
Average salary £72,500 £45,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.11% +57.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,000 £25,150
10% offered a salary of more than £82,500 £47,500 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +11.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9153 10068 11449
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.80% 76.64% 75.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7868 9137 10224
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,400 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Data Validation
London

Data Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Data Validation Jobs Demand Trend

Data Validation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Validation across the City of London region.

City of London Data Validation Salary Trend

Data Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Validation across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Data Validation Salary Histogram

Data Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Validation.

1 19 (100.00%) Validation
2 10 (52.63%) ETL
3 9 (47.37%) Finance
4 8 (42.11%) Middleware
4 8 (42.11%) SMS
4 8 (42.11%) CRM
4 8 (42.11%) SOA
4 8 (42.11%) Billing
4 8 (42.11%) ESB
5 7 (36.84%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (36.84%) BSS
5 7 (36.84%) Zachman Framework
5 7 (36.84%) TOGAF
6 4 (21.05%) Data Management
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) SQL
7 3 (15.79%) XML
7 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 2 (10.53%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (10.53%) SAN
8 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (10.53%) Linux
8 2 (10.53%) Oracle 9i
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
8 2 (10.53%) UNIX
8 2 (10.53%) Oracle
8 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
8 2 (10.53%) DB2

Data Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Data 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 Data Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (42.11%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (5.263%) WPF
4 1 (5.263%) COM+
4 1 (5.263%) STL
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) SMS
2 7 (36.84%) BSS
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 1 (5.263%) WAN
4 1 (5.263%) DNS
4 1 (5.263%) LAN
4 1 (5.263%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.263%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (5.263%) Data Mining
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Billing
3 1 (5.263%) Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Marketing
3 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.263%) Legal
3 1 (5.263%) Advertising
3 1 (5.263%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Database Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Database Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Pricing Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Development Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.263%) Information Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.263%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Derivative
2 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.263%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Validation
2 10 (52.63%) ETL
3 8 (42.11%) CRM
3 8 (42.11%) SOA
4 7 (36.84%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (36.84%) Zachman Framework
4 7 (36.84%) TOGAF
5 4 (21.05%) Data Management
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
7 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
7 1 (5.263%) Investment Management
7 1 (5.263%) Financial Modelling
7 1 (5.263%) BDD
7 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.263%) Master Data Management
7 1 (5.263%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PHP
2 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.263%) Java
3 1 (5.263%) C
3 1 (5.263%) C#
3 1 (5.263%) C++
3 1 (5.263%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.263%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.263%) Cerillion
3 1 (5.263%) Business Objects
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco
3 1 (5.263%) Cognos
3 1 (5.263%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.263%) Lotus
3 1 (5.263%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.263%) Citrix