The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 40 62 47
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -15
Contract jobs citing SLA 10 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.938% 0.239% 0.464%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.57% 5.405% 9.677%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £340 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £96.25 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+862.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-1.72% +3.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
35 37 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 6.783% 4.426% 4.799%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 18
Average daily rate £325 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £227 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £453 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £157.50 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1475.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
SLA
South West

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol SLA Hourly Rate Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 7 (33.33%) ITIL
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (33.33%) Service Management
2 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
3 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
4 4 (19.05%) Budget Control
4 4 (19.05%) Change Control
5 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Legal
5 3 (14.29%) Windows
5 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
6 2 (9.524%) WAN
6 2 (9.524%) DHCP
6 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.524%) DNS
6 2 (9.524%) LAN
6 2 (9.524%) AIX
6 2 (9.524%) UNIX
6 2 (9.524%) C#

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (9.524%) .NET
1 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.762%) XML
2 1 (4.762%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
1 2 (9.524%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) WAN
1 2 (9.524%) DHCP
1 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.524%) DNS
1 2 (9.524%) LAN
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (4.762%) UMTS
2 1 (4.762%) VoIP
2 1 (4.762%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.524%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX Support Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX Support
4 2 (9.524%) MI Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) AIX Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) UAT Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Help Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows XP
2 2 (9.524%) AIX
2 2 (9.524%) UNIX
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Vista
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
1 7 (33.33%) Service Management
2 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
3 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
4 4 (19.05%) Budget Control
4 4 (19.05%) Change Control
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Project Management
6 2 (9.524%) Validation
6 2 (9.524%) Data Validation
6 2 (9.524%) ITIL V3
7 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.762%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) C#
1 2 (9.524%) PHP
1 2 (9.524%) SQL
1 2 (9.524%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) MCITP
2 1 (4.762%) MCTS
2 1 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.762%) CCVP
2 1 (4.762%) MCP
2 1 (4.762%) MCSE
2 1 (4.762%) CCNP
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.762%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.762%) vSphere
2 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.762%) DameWare
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) IBM
3 1 (4.762%) LANDesk
3 1 (4.762%) Lagan
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) Dell
3 1 (4.762%) Cisco
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