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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 34 64 54
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -10
Permanent jobs citing Validation 41 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crawley 6.550% 0.552% 1.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.650% 0.658% 1.370%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 0
Average salary £67,500 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.10% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Crawley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
474 456 365
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crawley 75.72% 83.98% 75.73%
Number of salaries quoted 348 353 278
Average salary £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.45% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
West Sussex

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Salary Histogram

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

Crawley Validation Salary Histogram

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crawley 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 46 (88.46%) Military
2 45 (86.54%) Electronics
3 32 (61.54%) Aerospace
4 31 (59.62%) Telecoms
4 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
4 31 (59.62%) Chip and PIN
4 31 (59.62%) Information Management
4 31 (59.62%) Communications Security
5 23 (44.23%) Finance
6 21 (40.38%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (40.38%) Avionics
7 19 (36.54%) C
8 18 (34.62%) Oracle
8 18 (34.62%) Oracle 8/8i
8 18 (34.62%) Cognos
8 18 (34.62%) ERP
8 18 (34.62%) Oracle EBS
8 18 (34.62%) Quality Management
8 18 (34.62%) Business Process Improvement
8 18 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (34.62%) Asset Management
9 17 (32.69%) Degree
9 17 (32.69%) Rational DOORS
9 17 (32.69%) C++
9 17 (32.69%) OO
10 16 (30.77%) UML
10 16 (30.77%) Project Management
11 14 (26.92%) MS Excel
11 14 (26.92%) DO-178B
11 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crawley 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 13 (25.00%) JSF
1 13 (25.00%) Middleware
2 10 (19.23%) CSS
3 2 (3.846%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.846%) .NET
Applications
1 14 (26.92%) MS Excel
2 13 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 13 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (5.769%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (7.692%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.846%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (25.00%) ClearCase
2 13 (25.00%) ClearQuest
General
1 46 (88.46%) Military
2 45 (86.54%) Electronics
3 32 (61.54%) Aerospace
4 31 (59.62%) Telecoms
5 23 (44.23%) Finance
6 21 (40.38%) Avionics
7 5 (9.615%) Billing
8 3 (5.769%) Banking
9 1 (1.923%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Consultant
2 16 (30.77%) Applications Consultant
3 15 (28.85%) Oracle Consultant
4 13 (25.00%) Oracle Applications Consultant
5 9 (17.31%) Architect
5 9 (17.31%) Technical Architect
6 7 (13.46%) Software Architect
7 5 (9.615%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.615%) Developer
7 5 (9.615%) SQL Developer
7 5 (9.615%) Database Developer
7 5 (9.615%) SQL Database Developer
8 4 (7.692%) SQL Server Developer
8 4 (7.692%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.846%) Software Team Leader
9 2 (3.846%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.846%) Hardware Engineer
9 2 (3.846%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 1 (1.923%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.923%) Test Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
1 31 (59.62%) Chip and PIN
2 13 (25.00%) Device Driver
3 4 (7.692%) Cryptography
4 2 (3.846%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.00%) VxWorks
1 13 (25.00%) Windows
1 13 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) Information Management
1 31 (59.62%) Communications Security
2 21 (40.38%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (34.62%) ERP
3 18 (34.62%) Quality Management
3 18 (34.62%) Business Process Improvement
3 18 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (34.62%) Asset Management
4 17 (32.69%) OO
5 16 (30.77%) UML
5 16 (30.77%) Project Management
6 13 (25.00%) Requirements Management
6 13 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
6 13 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 13 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 13 (25.00%) SSADM
6 13 (25.00%) Yourdon
7 12 (23.08%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) C
2 17 (32.69%) C++
3 13 (25.00%) Ada
4 9 (17.31%) C#
5 5 (9.615%) SQL
6 4 (7.692%) Python
6 4 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Degree
2 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 13 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) DO-178B
2 2 (3.846%) JTAG
3 1 (1.923%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.923%) DO-254
3 1 (1.923%) ARP4761
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Oracle
1 18 (34.62%) Cognos
2 10 (19.23%) PTC
3 5 (9.615%) Primavera
3 5 (9.615%) Northgate
4 3 (5.769%) QNX
4 3 (5.769%) ReadSoft
5 2 (3.846%) Cadence
6 1 (1.923%) Mentor Graphics