The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 28 35 27
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Validation 7 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 3.646% 1.657% 4.790%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.268% 1.875% 5.405%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 8
Average salary £50,000 £46,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +13.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
164 160 148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 85.42% 88.40% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 158 147 118
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% -2.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £62,500 £66,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Cheshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 6 (85.71%) IBM
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere MQ
1 6 (85.71%) Middleware
1 6 (85.71%) Business Continuity
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 6 (85.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 6 (85.71%) WebSphere MQ
1 6 (85.71%) Middleware
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Continuity
1 6 (85.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft