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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 47 48 35
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Validation 3 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.792% 0.255% 0.433%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.974% 0.435% 0.483%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £35,000 £24,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.83% -23.80%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
308 230 207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.27% 58.67% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 266 193 180
Average salary £47,500 £47,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.06% +6.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Bedfordshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Ada
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Infor M3
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) iSeries
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Movex
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Lawson
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 (33.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Lawson
1 1 (33.33%) Movex
1 1 (33.33%) Infor M3
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Ada Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Ada