Somerset Validation Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Validation skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Ealing East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Lothian Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	81
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	3.611 %	0.686 %
Salaries quoted	25	4
Average minimum salary	£48,600	£32,500
Average salary	£50,320	£35,625
% change on same period last year	+41.24 %
Average maximum salary	£52,040	£38,750
UK excluding London average salary	£40,730	£37,020
% change on same period last year	+10.02 %
Processes & Methodologies Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	803	583
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.424 %	0.239 %
Salaries quoted	694	521
Average minimum salary	£37,579	£32,023
Average salary	£40,802	£35,942
% change on same period last year	+13.52 %
Average maximum salary	£44,025	£39,860
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Validation across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Validation across the Somerset region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Validation across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Validation within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bath	-	20	£51,200	-
Taunton	-	2	£42,000	-

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 24 (47.06 %) Aerospace 2 18 (35.29 %) Security Cleared 3 17 (33.33 %) Business Development 3 17 (33.33 %) DoDAF 3 17 (33.33 %) MODAF 3 17 (33.33 %) UML 4 15 (29.41 %) Requirements Analysis 5 8 (15.69 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (13.73 %) Electronics 7 6 (11.76 %) Wi-Fi 7 6 (11.76 %) Wireless 7 6 (11.76 %) C 7 6 (11.76 %) C++ 7 6 (11.76 %) 802.11 7 6 (11.76 %) ASIC

7 6 (11.76 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 7 6 (11.76 %) WiMAX 8 2 (3.922 %) Government 9 1 (1.961 %) Finance 9 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 9 1 (1.961 %) Programme Management 9 1 (1.961 %) Data Validation

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (11.76 %) 802.11 1 6 (11.76 %) Wi-Fi 1 6 (11.76 %) Wireless 1 6 (11.76 %) WiMAX	General 1 24 (47.06 %) Aerospace 2 7 (13.73 %) Electronics 3 2 (3.922 %) Government 4 1 (1.961 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 15 (29.41 %) Systems Engineer 2 7 (13.73 %) Integration Manager 3 5 (9.804 %) Systems Manager 4 3 (5.882 %) Hardware Engineer 4 3 (5.882 %) Integration Engineer 4 3 (5.882 %) Software Integration Engineer 4 3 (5.882 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (3.922 %) Design Engineer 6 1 (1.961 %) Administrator 6 1 (1.961 %) Project Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 6 (11.76 %) ASIC 1 6 (11.76 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (35.29 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (33.33 %) Business Development 2 17 (33.33 %) UML 2 17 (33.33 %) DoDAF 2 17 (33.33 %) MODAF 3 15 (29.41 %) Requirements Analysis 4 8 (15.69 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.961 %) Data Validation 5 1 (1.961 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (11.76 %) C 1 6 (11.76 %) C++
Vendors 1 1 (1.961 %) Oracle