SLA Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
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 Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 23 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 Buckinghamshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 45 23 40
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +17
Contract jobs citing SLA 22 61 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.713% 6.180% 3.312%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.56% 67.03% 48.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
Average daily rate £281 £320 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.10% +42.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £95 £114
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £364 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 13
Average hourly rate £12.95 £14.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.12% +1.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 72 91 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 8.878% 9.220% 6.808%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 16
Average daily rate £410 £308 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -1.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £104 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £410 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 14
Average hourly rate £12.95 £14.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.12% +1.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
South East

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Milton Keynes -18 15 £250 -28.57%
High Wycombe -1 5 - -
Aylesbury -8 1 - -
SLA
South East

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 30 (50.85%) Windows
2 20 (33.90%) ITIL
3 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
4 17 (28.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (25.42%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (22.03%) HP
7 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
7 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
7 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
8 10 (16.95%) Incident Management
9 9 (15.25%) Service Delivery
9 9 (15.25%) Windows XP
9 9 (15.25%) Linux
9 9 (15.25%) Hyper-V
10 8 (13.56%) Backup Exec
11 7 (11.86%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (11.86%) VMware
11 7 (11.86%) Service Management
11 7 (11.86%) UNIX
11 7 (11.86%) MS Exchange
11 7 (11.86%) IBM
12 6 (10.17%) Dell
12 6 (10.17%) Tivoli
12 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
12 6 (10.17%) VPN
12 6 (10.17%) MS Office
12 6 (10.17%) Windows 2000
12 6 (10.17%) Finance
12 6 (10.17%) ITIL V3
12 6 (10.17%) Windows 7

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (1.695%) RSS
1 1 (1.695%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.86%) Exchange Server 2003
1 7 (11.86%) MS Exchange
2 5 (8.475%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (6.780%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (3.390%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.695%) Lync
5 1 (1.695%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) MS Office
2 4 (6.780%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Staffware
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
1 6 (10.17%) VPN
2 5 (8.475%) Internet
3 4 (6.780%) DNS
3 4 (6.780%) DHCP
3 4 (6.780%) Firewall
4 3 (5.085%) LAN
4 3 (5.085%) WAN
5 2 (3.390%) VoIP
5 2 (3.390%) Broadband
5 2 (3.390%) IPsec
6 1 (1.695%) NAS
6 1 (1.695%) Network Security
6 1 (1.695%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.695%) SNMP
6 1 (1.695%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.390%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.695%) OLTP
2 1 (1.695%) DB2
2 1 (1.695%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.695%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 6 (10.17%) Finance
2 4 (6.780%) Banking
3 2 (3.390%) Retail
3 2 (3.390%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.695%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.695%) Legal
4 1 (1.695%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Analyst
2 10 (16.95%) Service Analyst
3 8 (13.56%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (8.475%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (8.475%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.475%) Service Manager
4 5 (8.475%) Coordinator
5 4 (6.780%) Systems Support Engineer
5 4 (6.780%) Systems Support
6 3 (5.085%) Backup Specialist
6 3 (5.085%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.085%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.085%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.085%) MVS Operator
7 2 (3.390%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Services Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Operations Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Service Operations Manager
8 1 (1.695%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 1 (1.695%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.780%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.390%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.390%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.695%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.695%) Clustering
3 1 (1.695%) AS400
3 1 (1.695%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.85%) Windows
2 17 (28.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (25.42%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (15.25%) Windows XP
4 9 (15.25%) Linux
5 7 (11.86%) UNIX
6 6 (10.17%) Windows 2000
6 6 (10.17%) Windows 7
7 5 (8.475%) CentOS
8 3 (5.085%) Windows NT
8 3 (5.085%) MVS
9 2 (3.390%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.695%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.695%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) ITIL
2 10 (16.95%) Incident Management
3 9 (15.25%) Service Delivery
4 7 (11.86%) Service Management
5 6 (10.17%) ITIL V3
6 5 (8.475%) Capacity Management
6 5 (8.475%) Change Management
7 3 (5.085%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.085%) Project Management
8 2 (3.390%) Logistics
8 2 (3.390%) Validation
9 1 (1.695%) Change Control
9 1 (1.695%) Network Management
9 1 (1.695%) Investment Management
9 1 (1.695%) Risk Analysis
9 1 (1.695%) Matrix Management
9 1 (1.695%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (1.695%) ITSM
9 1 (1.695%) Security Management
9 1 (1.695%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.780%) SQL
2 2 (3.390%) JCL
3 1 (1.695%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.780%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.780%) MCSE
5 3 (5.085%) CCNA
5 3 (5.085%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.390%) MCP
6 2 (3.390%) Degree
7 1 (1.695%) MCDST
7 1 (1.695%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.695%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.695%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.25%) Hyper-V
3 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.695%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Backup Exec
2 6 (10.17%) Tivoli
3 4 (6.780%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (5.085%) SCCM
4 3 (5.085%) Control-M
4 3 (5.085%) OpenView
5 2 (3.390%) OVSD
6 1 (1.695%) SCOM
6 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.695%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (1.695%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) HP
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.86%) VMware
3 7 (11.86%) IBM
4 6 (10.17%) Dell
5 5 (8.475%) Remedy
5 5 (8.475%) CommVault
6 4 (6.780%) Symantec
6 4 (6.780%) Sophos
6 4 (6.780%) Cisco
7 3 (5.085%) LANDesk
7 3 (5.085%) Intel
8 2 (3.390%) Citrix
8 2 (3.390%) Juniper
8 2 (3.390%) Oracle
8 2 (3.390%) F5
9 1 (1.695%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.695%) Wyse
9 1 (1.695%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.695%) NetApp
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