The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 17 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 30 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 4 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 1.399% 0.877% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.041% 1.087% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £60,000 £65,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
196 276 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 68.53% 80.70% 69.26%
Number of salaries quoted 179 255 184
Average salary £48,500 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.11% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £80,000 £62,500
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 Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 7 (77.78%) Data Analysis
2 5 (55.56%) Data Validation
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (44.44%) Data Security
3 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) Sybase
3 4 (44.44%) Business Objects
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) RAD
3 4 (44.44%) MCSE
3 4 (44.44%) Ingres
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle Discoverer
3 4 (44.44%) Data Extraction
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) QA
3 4 (44.44%) Release Management
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 4 (44.44%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (44.44%) dBASE
3 4 (44.44%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Twitter

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Ingres
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Discoverer
1 4 (44.44%) dBASE
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) OLAP
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Team Leader
1 4 (44.44%) Development Team Leader
2 3 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Automation Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Database Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Freedom of Information
1 4 (44.44%) Data Extraction
2 1 (11.11%) iSeries
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Analysis
2 5 (55.56%) Data Validation
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Release Management
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) RAD
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (44.44%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
4 3 (33.33%) System Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) MCSE
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Sybase
2 4 (44.44%) Business Objects
3 3 (33.33%) Twitter
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) IBM