The first table below looks at the demand for Data Validation skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Validation over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Validation
Rank 741 828 816
Rank change year-on-year
+87 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Validation 121 71 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.112% 0.059% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.147% 0.079% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 89 56 60
Average salary £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £31,250 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £80,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £47,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-14.73% +25.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
82549 90051 91603
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.38% 74.62% 73.63%
Number of salaries quoted 67666 76516 76773
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

Data Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Data Validation Jobs Demand Trend

Data Validation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Validation within the UK.

Data Validation Salary Trend

Data Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Validation over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Data Validation Salary Histogram

Data Validation
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +72 117 £39,000 -13.33%
South East +25 41 £65,000 -16.12%
London +55 36 £39,000 -10.85%
North West +26 23 £31,750 -51.15%
Chester - 21 £28,500 -
Cheshire - 21 £28,500 -
Surrey +7 19 £70,000 -9.67%
Berkshire - 17 £32,500 -
City of London +8 15 £72,500 +61.11%
Maidenhead - 15 £32,500 -
South West +3 6 £30,500 +3.38%
Reigate -4 5 £70,000 -12.50%
Nottinghamshire - 5 £45,000 -
East Sussex - 5 £30,000 -
Nottingham - 5 £45,000 -
Crawley - 5 £70,000 -
West Sussex - 5 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 5 £45,000 -
Leeds - 4 £24,428 -
Brighton - 4 £29,500 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £24,428 -
Yorkshire - 4 £24,428 -
West Midlands -27 3 £36,000 -10.44%
Redhill - 3 £70,000 -
Somerset - 3 £36,000 -
Edinburgh +7 2 - -
Scotland +3 2 - -
Bristol -5 2 £30,000 +1.69%
Manchester - 2 £35,000 -
Bath - 2 £36,000 -

Data Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Data 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 Data Validation.

1 204 (100.00%) Validation
2 109 (53.43%) SQL
3 75 (36.76%) Finance
4 69 (33.82%) Microsoft
5 67 (32.84%) SQL Server
6 57 (27.94%) Agile Software Development
7 56 (27.45%) ETL
8 55 (26.96%) C#
8 55 (26.96%) Oracle
9 54 (26.47%) MS Excel
10 50 (24.51%) XML
11 49 (24.02%) Data Management
12 45 (22.06%) Data Modelling
13 42 (20.59%) Data Analysis
14 38 (18.63%) QA
15 37 (18.14%) Management Information System
16 35 (17.16%) Migration
17 33 (16.18%) Project Management
18 32 (15.69%) Integration Testing
18 32 (15.69%) Data Extraction
19 31 (15.20%) Data Migration
20 30 (14.71%) Web Services
21 29 (14.22%) Business Objects
22 27 (13.24%) .NET
22 27 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
22 27 (13.24%) Systems Analysis
22 27 (13.24%) Waterfall
23 26 (12.75%) dBASE
23 26 (12.75%) Degree
23 26 (12.75%) Oracle Discoverer

Data Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Data 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 Data Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 50 (24.51%) XML
2 30 (14.71%) Web Services
3 27 (13.24%) .NET
4 17 (8.333%) SOAP
5 16 (7.843%) REST
6 15 (7.353%) JSON
7 13 (6.373%) XSL
8 11 (5.392%) WPF
8 11 (5.392%) HTML
9 10 (4.902%) ASP.NET
9 10 (4.902%) COM+
10 9 (4.412%) ASP
10 9 (4.412%) Middleware
11 6 (2.941%) Silverlight
12 1 (0.490%) OpenCV
12 1 (0.490%) RESTful
12 1 (0.490%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 1 (0.490%) STL
12 1 (0.490%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (4.412%) ESB
2 1 (0.490%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.490%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.490%) SAS
2 1 (0.490%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 54 (26.47%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.902%) MS Office
3 5 (2.451%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (1.471%) InDesign
5 1 (0.490%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.961%) WebTrends
2 4 (1.961%) SiteCatalyst
3 3 (1.471%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.490%) HFM
4 1 (0.490%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.490%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.490%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.373%) Internet
2 12 (5.882%) FTP
3 9 (4.412%) SMS
4 8 (3.922%) HTTP
5 7 (3.431%) BSS
6 2 (0.980%) SAN
7 1 (0.490%) LDAP
7 1 (0.490%) WAN
7 1 (0.490%) LAN
7 1 (0.490%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (32.84%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.75%) dBASE
2 26 (12.75%) Oracle Discoverer
2 26 (12.75%) Ingres
3 22 (10.78%) Oracle 11g
3 22 (10.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (10.29%) DB2
4 21 (10.29%) Oracle 9i
4 21 (10.29%) RDBMS
4 21 (10.29%) Oracle 10g
5 13 (6.373%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (6.373%) MS Access
5 13 (6.373%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
6 12 (5.882%) DTS
7 11 (5.392%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (4.902%) MySQL
9 8 (3.922%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.961%) OLAP
10 4 (1.961%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (6.373%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.980%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.490%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.490%) Selenium
General
1 75 (36.76%) Finance
2 15 (7.353%) Banking
3 11 (5.392%) Back Office
4 10 (4.902%) Investment Banking
5 9 (4.412%) Billing
5 9 (4.412%) French Language
5 9 (4.412%) German Language
6 7 (3.431%) Retail
6 7 (3.431%) Marketing
7 6 (2.941%) Legal
8 4 (1.961%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.471%) Advertising
9 3 (1.471%) Publishing
10 2 (0.980%) Electronics
10 2 (0.980%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.980%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.980%) Front Office
10 2 (0.980%) Music
11 1 (0.490%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.490%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (31.37%) Developer
2 57 (27.94%) Analyst
3 37 (18.14%) Database Developer
4 36 (17.65%) Data Analyst
5 24 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 23 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Senior Database Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Senior Oracle Database Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Oracle Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Oracle Database Developer
8 18 (8.824%) Architect
8 18 (8.824%) SQL Developer
9 12 (5.882%) SQL Database Developer
10 10 (4.902%) Development Manager
10 10 (4.902%) Team Leader
10 10 (4.902%) Systems Manager
10 10 (4.902%) Systems Development Manager
11 9 (4.412%) Technical Support
11 9 (4.412%) C# Architect
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.14%) Management Information System
2 32 (15.69%) Data Extraction
3 21 (10.29%) Derivative
3 21 (10.29%) Freedom of Information
4 19 (9.314%) Mathematics
5 16 (7.843%) Data Integration
6 15 (7.353%) Open Source
7 14 (6.863%) Computer Science
8 13 (6.373%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.431%) Statistics
10 4 (1.961%) Economics
11 2 (0.980%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.980%) NHS
11 2 (0.980%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.980%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.980%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.490%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.490%) SaaS
12 1 (0.490%) Learning Management System
12 1 (0.490%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.27%) UNIX
2 22 (10.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.980%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) Validation
2 57 (27.94%) Agile Software Development
3 56 (27.45%) ETL
4 49 (24.02%) Data Management
5 45 (22.06%) Data Modelling
6 42 (20.59%) Data Analysis
7 35 (17.16%) Migration
8 33 (16.18%) Project Management
9 32 (15.69%) Integration Testing
10 31 (15.20%) Data Migration
11 27 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (13.24%) Systems Analysis
11 27 (13.24%) Waterfall
12 26 (12.75%) OO
13 25 (12.25%) RAD
14 24 (11.76%) Data Security
15 23 (11.27%) Information Management
16 21 (10.29%) Data Protection
17 19 (9.314%) Release Management
18 15 (7.353%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.43%) SQL
2 55 (26.96%) C#
3 22 (10.78%) PL/SQL
4 17 (8.333%) Java
5 15 (7.353%) PHP
6 13 (6.373%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.373%) Groovy
7 9 (4.412%) VB
7 9 (4.412%) VBA
8 5 (2.451%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.961%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.471%) Python
11 2 (0.980%) Perl
11 2 (0.980%) C++
12 1 (0.490%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.490%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.490%) C
12 1 (0.490%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (12.75%) Degree
2 19 (9.314%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (9.314%) MCSE
3 1 (0.490%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.63%) QA
2 17 (8.333%) SLA
3 9 (4.412%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.941%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.980%) GAAP
6 1 (0.490%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.490%) Basel II
System Software
1 21 (10.29%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.490%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.490%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 55 (26.96%) Oracle
3 29 (14.22%) Business Objects
4 26 (12.75%) Sybase
5 4 (1.961%) Informatica
5 4 (1.961%) Coremetrics
6 3 (1.471%) Google
6 3 (1.471%) Cognos
6 3 (1.471%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.471%) Adobe
7 2 (0.980%) Salesforce.com
7 2 (0.980%) Reuters
7 2 (0.980%) Cerillion
8 1 (0.490%) SAP
8 1 (0.490%) Lotus
8 1 (0.490%) Cisco
8 1 (0.490%) Citrix
City of London
The Data validation system is one of the key aspects of the business and you will therefore have to liaise with the broking desks and pricing desks to...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Informatica ILM Architect - Banking - West Yorkshire - c£85,000 The Financial services practice of a global multi-billion dollar turnover consulting firm have a senior opportunity for an...
Networking People
Salary: full corporate benefits package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Be a part of a hyper growth software vendor who has grown 35% year on year in size and who has projected earnings growth of 25% over the...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £25000 - £27000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Amersham, Thames Valley
Senior Business Systems Analyst required to join a leading UK telecoms company. The Senior Business Systems Analyst will be very experienced at working with data and reports, with...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £35000.00 - £42000.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London N7, London, South East
Acting as the functional expert for all aspects of Sharepoint sites/applications including installation, configuration, support and MI reporting, you'll also manage the application support team and...
Richmond Fellowship
Salary: £27,484 - £32,330
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bromley, London
May be you have experience of advanced excel data mining, excel data manipulation, operational research or demand forecasting? If so APPLY NOW!!This is a great opportunity for...
OCC Computing
Salary: £17k - 19k per year
Posted: 3 May 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Our client a Mobile Apps company are looking to recruit a Data Integration Services specialist - Junior Role Overview: The client are seeking a talented and eager Data Integration...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
This is an opportunity to get involved in a fast-moving mobile, cloud and web application environment with the potential of using some of the latest technologies and...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013