The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 43 60 54
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -6
Contract jobs citing SLA 11 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.923% 0.552% 0.797%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 10.53% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
Average hourly rate £72.50 £13.92 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+420.83% -20.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+9.73% +0.89%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
44 38 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 7.692% 5.241% 6.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 22
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £300 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £565 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £72.50 £29.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% +45.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Peterborough +3 7 - - 3
Cambridge +14 3 - - 2
Huntingdon - - - -
SLA
East of England

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 18 (64.29%) Windows
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (50.00%) VMware
3 11 (39.29%) Validation
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (39.29%) VBScript
3 11 (39.29%) VB
3 11 (39.29%) MSI
4 10 (35.71%) InstallShield
4 10 (35.71%) Citrix
5 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (32.14%) MCSE
6 8 (28.57%) SCCM
7 7 (25.00%) Remedy
8 6 (21.43%) Terminal Services
8 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
9 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
9 5 (17.86%) ITIL
9 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
9 5 (17.86%) Finance
10 4 (14.29%) AdminStudio
10 4 (14.29%) MS Office
10 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
10 4 (14.29%) XenApp
11 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
11 3 (10.71%) Change Control
11 3 (10.71%) Build Automation
11 3 (10.71%) AppSense

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (3.571%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.571%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.571%) IIS
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
1 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (3.571%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.143%) DNS
3 1 (3.571%) VPN
3 1 (3.571%) LAN
3 1 (3.571%) WAN
3 1 (3.571%) DHCP
3 1 (3.571%) FTP
3 1 (3.571%) HTTP
3 1 (3.571%) Internet
3 1 (3.571%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) MSI
2 10 (35.71%) InstallShield
3 4 (14.29%) AdminStudio
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Applications Packager
2 4 (14.29%) Team Leader
2 4 (14.29%) Software Packager
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Administrator
5 1 (3.571%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.571%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.571%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (3.571%) UNIX Specialist
5 1 (3.571%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Help Desk Administrator
5 1 (3.571%) Call Centre Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Fat Client
1 3 (10.71%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.571%) SaaS
2 1 (3.571%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Windows
2 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.571%) UNIX
2 1 (3.571%) Linux
2 1 (3.571%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Validation
2 5 (17.86%) ITIL
2 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
3 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (10.71%) Change Control
4 3 (10.71%) Build Automation
4 3 (10.71%) Release Management
5 2 (7.143%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.143%) Migration
6 1 (3.571%) Analytics
6 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.571%) PRINCE
6 1 (3.571%) DRM
6 1 (3.571%) Project Management
6 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) VBScript
1 11 (39.29%) VB
2 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.571%) Perl
3 1 (3.571%) SQL
3 1 (3.571%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (32.14%) MCSE
2 2 (7.143%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (7.143%) CCEE
3 1 (3.571%) CCNP
3 1 (3.571%) CCNA
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft App-V
1 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (21.43%) Terminal Services
2 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.29%) XenApp
4 2 (7.143%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.143%) IAG
4 2 (7.143%) vSphere
4 2 (7.143%) XenServer
4 2 (7.143%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (7.143%) SCOM
3 1 (3.571%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.571%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (50.00%) VMware
3 10 (35.71%) Citrix
4 7 (25.00%) Remedy
5 3 (10.71%) AppSense
6 2 (7.143%) Wyse
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco
7 1 (3.571%) Business Objects
7 1 (3.571%) SAP
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