The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank - 5 15
Contract jobs citing SLA 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - 10.53% 2.381%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 66.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £575 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £261
% change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.95 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.66% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 5.000% 15.79% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £575 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
SLA
Bedfordshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SLA across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Bedford SLA Jobs Demand Trend

SLA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SLA across the Bedford region.

Bedford SLA Daily Rate Trend

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SLA across the Bedford region.

Bedford SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing SLA 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited SLA.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing SLA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SLA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware