The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 93 64 74
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +10
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2 10 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.171% 1.179% 1.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.238% 1.704% 1.289%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 7
Average salary - £31,250 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.93%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
842 587 776
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 71.90% 69.22% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 496 438 590
Average salary £41,000 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.89% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Scotland

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) GMP
2 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Unified Process
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (25.00%) Unified Process
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) BPMN
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GMP
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Validation and verification with the business... Desirable Skills Experience of Agile software development Experience of waterfall and iterative development lifecycles, particularly Unified Process Experience of writing user storyboards...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013