The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 47 - 58
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Validation 9 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.731% - 0.693%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.179% - 1.055%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £20,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
413 413 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 79.42% 67.05% 65.68%
Number of salaries quoted 353 354 327
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +1.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £23,350
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
South Yorkshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Validation across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Sheffield Validation Salary Histogram

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 11 (64.71%) Windows
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) VBScript
3 7 (41.18%) VB
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (41.18%) MSI
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
4 6 (35.29%) Wise Package Studio
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (35.29%) InstallShield
4 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
5 5 (29.41%) SQL
5 5 (29.41%) Java
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (23.53%) ESB
6 4 (23.53%) Biotechnology
6 4 (23.53%) QA
6 4 (23.53%) Capita
6 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
6 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
6 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
6 4 (23.53%) MS Office
6 4 (23.53%) Web Services
6 4 (23.53%) SOA
6 4 (23.53%) GCP
6 4 (23.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (23.53%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) ESB
2 1 (5.882%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
2 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MSI
2 6 (35.29%) InstallShield
2 6 (35.29%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Applications Packager
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Service Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Development Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Development Analyst
5 3 (17.65%) Software Packager
6 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
7 1 (5.882%) Database Analyst
7 1 (5.882%) Senior Database Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Biotechnology
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) SOA
2 4 (23.53%) Process Management
2 4 (23.53%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
2 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
2 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.882%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) VBScript
1 7 (41.18%) VB
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) TIBCO
2 4 (23.53%) Capita
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix
4 1 (5.882%) BT
4 1 (5.882%) Mitel
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle