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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 47 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 0.345% - 0.224%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.442% - 0.270%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £38,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
226 280 370
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.93% 81.16% 82.77%
Number of salaries quoted 179 181 267
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Validation
Hertfordshire

Validation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 5 (71.43%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) Tcl
2 3 (42.86%) ASIC
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 3 (42.86%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (42.86%) VHDL
2 3 (42.86%) Verilog
2 3 (42.86%) Multimedia
2 3 (42.86%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) C-shell
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) MS Office
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 (28.57%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Multimedia
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Support
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) ASIC
1 3 (42.86%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (42.86%) VHDL
1 3 (42.86%) Verilog
1 3 (42.86%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) Tcl
1 3 (42.86%) C-shell
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Capita