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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 53 58 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Validation 11 1 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.741% 0.207% 1.685%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.340% 0.287% 2.647%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 9
Average salary £36,000 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +13.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
470 349 340
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 74.37% 72.41% 63.67%
Number of salaries quoted 422 321 310
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,450 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
South West

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Job Locations

The table below 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 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Templecombe -1 4 - -
Yeovil - 4 - - 1
Bath - 2 £36,000 -
Taunton - 1 £28,500 -
Validation
South West

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 16 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 14 (50.00%) Finance
3 12 (42.86%) Data Management
3 12 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (42.86%) Java
3 12 (42.86%) PHP
3 12 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) OLAP
3 12 (42.86%) Business Objects
3 12 (42.86%) Oracle
3 12 (42.86%) UNIX
3 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (42.86%) ETL
3 12 (42.86%) Salesforce.com
3 12 (42.86%) Internet
3 12 (42.86%) Oracle OLAP
3 12 (42.86%) QlikView
3 12 (42.86%) Change Control
4 8 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (28.57%) Degree
5 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (21.43%) ISO 9001
7 5 (17.86%) ISDN
7 5 (17.86%) Ethernet
7 5 (17.86%) VPN
7 5 (17.86%) 3G
7 5 (17.86%) MPLS
7 5 (17.86%) Redback

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 2 (7.143%) .NET
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Office
2 3 (10.71%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Internet
2 5 (17.86%) ISDN
2 5 (17.86%) Ethernet
2 5 (17.86%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) 3G
2 5 (17.86%) MPLS
2 5 (17.86%) IPsec
2 5 (17.86%) xDSL
3 3 (10.71%) OSPF
3 3 (10.71%) PPP
3 3 (10.71%) DHCP
3 3 (10.71%) BGP
3 3 (10.71%) DSL
3 3 (10.71%) EIGRP
3 3 (10.71%) VRRP
3 3 (10.71%) VLAN
3 3 (10.71%) HSRP
4 2 (7.143%) LAN
4 2 (7.143%) WAN
4 2 (7.143%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) OLAP
1 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle OLAP
1 12 (42.86%) QlikView
2 2 (7.143%) MS Access
2 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (14.29%) Rational Rose
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.29%) Marketing
3 4 (14.29%) Electronics
3 4 (14.29%) Military
3 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.571%) Retail
4 1 (3.571%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) DBA
1 12 (42.86%) Administrator
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle DBA
3 7 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 4 (14.29%) Software Team Leader
4 4 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Customer Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Trainer
7 1 (3.571%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Trainer
7 1 (3.571%) Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) IP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) Digital Media
3 2 (7.143%) Data Extraction
4 1 (3.571%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.571%) Statistics
4 1 (3.571%) Economics
4 1 (3.571%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) Data Management
2 12 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (42.86%) ETL
2 12 (42.86%) Change Control
3 5 (17.86%) Project Management
3 5 (17.86%) Performance Management
4 4 (14.29%) Network Management
4 4 (14.29%) Product Management
4 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 4 (14.29%) Business Development
4 4 (14.29%) CMMI
4 4 (14.29%) Information Management
5 3 (10.71%) Data Validation
6 2 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.143%) Resource Management
6 2 (7.143%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Java
1 12 (42.86%) PHP
1 12 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Chartered Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) CCIP
3 3 (10.71%) CCNA
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) ISO 9001
2 4 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Business Objects
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle
1 12 (42.86%) Salesforce.com
2 5 (17.86%) Redback
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco
2 5 (17.86%) Ericsson
3 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
Yeovil, Somerset
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Posted: 29 May 2013