The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Poole region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 23 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 Poole region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 14 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing Validation 4 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Poole 4.598% 2.020% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.714% 4.082% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
Average salary £29,500 £46,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Poole
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
70 49 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Poole 80.46% 49.49% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 56 49 66
Average salary £32,500 £28,685 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.29% -8.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,900 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Dorset

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Poole 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 Poole region.

Poole Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Poole 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 4 (57.14%) MS Office
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL V3
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) DirectX
3 2 (28.57%) Electronics
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) PegaRULES
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Pega
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Poole 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 2 (28.57%) J2EE
1 2 (28.57%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL V3
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Pega