The first table below looks at the demand for Validation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 21 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 Wolverhampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Validation
Rank 20 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Validation 1 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 1.493% 2.703% 11.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.961% 3.509% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 7
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.63%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wolverhampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
51 57 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 76.12% 77.03% 68.85%
Number of salaries quoted 49 54 38
Average salary £33,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,000 £22,650
10% offered a salary of more than £42,122 £47,500 £48,750
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 Wolverhampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton region.

Wolverhampton Validation Salary Trend

Validation
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) TopLink
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Validation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) TopLink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle