The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 18 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 66 64 31
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -33
Permanent jobs citing Validation 2 6 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.305% 0.905% 5.871%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.377% 1.242% 7.260%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 21
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +13.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
530 483 427
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 80.79% 72.85% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 441 362 360
Average salary £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Berkshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (66.67%) GAMP
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) JD Edwards
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) FMCG
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) snoop
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) GPRS
2 1 (33.33%) GSM
2 1 (33.33%) 3GPP
2 1 (33.33%) UMTS
2 1 (33.33%) 21 CFR Part 11

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) GPRS
1 1 (33.33%) GSM
1 1 (33.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (33.33%) UMTS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) snoop
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GAMP
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) JD Edwards