The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 25 33 25
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.699% 0.382% 0.752%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.348% 2.941% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £365 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
23 34 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 16.08% 12.98% 9.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 3
Average daily rate £350 £525 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +19.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £363 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £525 £560
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
East Sussex

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (100.00%) F5

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 Development
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris
1 1 (100.00%) ProCurve
1 1 (100.00%) F5