The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 17 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 65 72 74
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Validation 13 15 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.486% 1.475% 1.183%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.786% 1.823% 1.669%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 13
Average salary £36,500 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.11% +30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
728 823 779
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 83.20% 80.92% 70.88%
Number of salaries quoted 655 702 720
Average salary £39,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.29% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,805 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Validation across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire Validation Salary Histogram

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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Swindon +11 11 £36,500 +12.30%
Chippenham - 1 £40,000 -
Validation
South West

Validation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 10 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) Change Management
4 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (25.00%) 3G
4 5 (25.00%) XML
4 5 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) OOD
4 5 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) Perl
4 5 (25.00%) VB
4 5 (25.00%) .NET
4 5 (25.00%) Wireless
4 5 (25.00%) VB6
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
4 5 (25.00%) 4G
5 4 (20.00%) Electronics
5 4 (20.00%) WFM
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (20.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (20.00%) Subversion
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 4 (20.00%) Broadband

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 5 (25.00%) XML
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET
2 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.000%) SOAP
2 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
2 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.000%) JSON
2 1 (5.000%) WCF
2 1 (5.000%) WPF
2 1 (5.000%) LINQ
2 1 (5.000%) Spring.NET
2 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (5.000%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) Simulink
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) 3G
1 5 (25.00%) Wireless
1 5 (25.00%) 4G
2 4 (20.00%) Broadband
3 1 (5.000%) LAN
3 1 (5.000%) 3GPP
3 1 (5.000%) VoIP
3 1 (5.000%) WAN
3 1 (5.000%) DHCP
3 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.000%) FTP
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
3 1 (5.000%) 2G
3 1 (5.000%) 2.5G
3 1 (5.000%) TETRA
3 1 (5.000%) WiMAX
3 1 (5.000%) HSPA
3 1 (5.000%) LTE
3 1 (5.000%) DVB
3 1 (5.000%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Subversion
1 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.000%) LabVIEW
2 1 (5.000%) NUnit
2 1 (5.000%) ReSharper
2 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (5.000%) StyleCop
2 1 (5.000%) Moq
2 1 (5.000%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (20.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Report Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Graduate
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Project Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Change Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Graduate Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) Open Source
3 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.000%) Physics
3 1 (5.000%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) OOD
1 5 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (20.00%) WFM
2 4 (20.00%) OO
3 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.000%) UML
5 1 (5.000%) Project Management
5 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (5.000%) Business Development
5 1 (5.000%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.000%) Information Assurance
5 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.000%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (5.000%) MVVM
5 1 (5.000%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (25.00%) VB
3 5 (25.00%) C#
3 5 (25.00%) Perl
3 5 (25.00%) VB6
4 4 (20.00%) Embedded C
4 4 (20.00%) C
5 1 (5.000%) Java
5 1 (5.000%) Python
5 1 (5.000%) VBScript
5 1 (5.000%) Tcl
5 1 (5.000%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.000%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) HND
3 1 (5.000%) MCSE
3 1 (5.000%) CCNA
3 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle
3 1 (5.000%) Citrix
3 1 (5.000%) Infragistics
Swindon, Wiltshire
Technical Skills Crystal Reports MSSQL 2005, 2008 TSQL (demonstrable use of Stored procedures, Triggers etc.) Some VB6 and/or C# knowledge .NET 3.5/4.0 XML Main...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Experienced in change management procedures... Experienced in all relevant phases of software testing and validation... Technical Skills MSSQL 2005, 2008 (2012 would be an added bonus) Transact SQL (...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013