The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 22 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank - 54 57
Permanent jobs citing Validation 0 15 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 2.560% 0.527%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.659% 0.785%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 2
Average salary - £37,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +9.58%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
447 410 382
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.00% 69.97% 67.14%
Number of salaries quoted 387 350 307
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
West Midlands

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) VoIP
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) MS Office
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) CMDB
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) QA

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) VoIP
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (80.00%) Help Desk Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Lotus
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Good knowledge of SQL Server... General software support in a Windows environment... Previous experience with Middleware and/or LIS would be advantageous... Qualifications: Bachelors or equivalent degree required,...
Blues Point Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + benefits inc pension, on-call
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
Purpose of the role: Group Leads in the Global Applications team are engineers specialized in substation automation, and are fully involved in the primary function of the Applications...
Advantage XPO
Posted: 16 May 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
Purpose of the role: Group Leads in the Global Applications team are engineers specialized in substation automation, and are fully involved in the primary function of the Applications...
Advantage XPO
Posted: 16 May 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
Knowledge of procedures for functional verification, code validation and regression testing... Familiarity with one or more of the following protocols is also required: IEC61850, IEC 103, Modbus, DNP3...
Advantage XPO
Posted: 16 May 2013