SLA Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +7
Contract jobs citing SLA 3 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.571% 3.226% 3.082%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.43% 37.50% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
Average daily rate £335 £456 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.59% +107.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 14 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 7.330% 8.602% 6.164%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 10
Average daily rate £293 £575 £248
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-49.13% +132.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £298 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £610 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £23.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.94% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SLA Daily Rate Trend

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire SLA Daily Rate Histogram

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -3 3 £335 +91.42%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Publishing
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) SCOM
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) French Language
3 1 (16.67%) German Language
3 1 (16.67%) Italian Language
3 1 (16.67%) Fat Client

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
General
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) French Language
2 1 (16.67%) German Language
2 1 (16.67%) Italian Language
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce.com Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 1 (16.67%) TickIT
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
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