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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 46 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 6 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.348% 1.263% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.887% 1.791% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 0
Average salary £27,500 £37,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.67% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +13.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
318 335 260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 71.46% 70.53% 67.01%
Number of salaries quoted 276 271 209
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £62,500 £68,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Tyne and Wear

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat
2 7 (43.75%) OSPF
2 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
2 7 (43.75%) XenServer
3 6 (37.50%) CentOS
3 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
3 6 (37.50%) QA
3 6 (37.50%) BGP
3 6 (37.50%) Nagios
3 6 (37.50%) SAN
3 6 (37.50%) HP
3 6 (37.50%) DHCP
3 6 (37.50%) VPN
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 6 (37.50%) MySQL
3 6 (37.50%) Apache
3 6 (37.50%) LDAP
4 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Change Control
5 4 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (25.00%) Finance
5 4 (25.00%) ISEB
6 3 (18.75%) RHCE

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
2 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) OSPF
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) BGP
2 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 6 (37.50%) DHCP
2 6 (37.50%) VPN
2 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) LDAP
3 3 (18.75%) IPsec
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 3 (18.75%) HSRP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.250%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) Broadband
4 1 (6.250%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Selenium
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Network Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Social Network
1 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
3 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Change Control
4 3 (18.75%) RDF
4 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
4 3 (18.75%) System Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Time Management
5 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) RAD
6 1 (6.250%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) ISEB
2 3 (18.75%) RHCE
2 3 (18.75%) ISEB Practitioner
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat
3 6 (37.50%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft