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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Validation
Rank 82 89 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.187% 0.073% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.247% 0.100% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £25,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £47,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-14.73% +25.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Data Validation
Scotland

Data Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Validation Salary Trend

Data Validation
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) MS Access
3 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (50.00%) Reuters
3 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) GAAP
3 2 (50.00%) Back Office
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Fund Accounting
3 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) MATLAB

Data Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MS Access
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GAAP
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Reuters
1 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg