The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 48 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.514% 0.785% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.250% 13.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £617 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
32 23 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 8.226% 6.021% 7.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 23
Average daily rate £500 £455 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.89% -20.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £428 £394
10% offered a daily rate of more than £621 £700 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
London

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Java SE
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Kalahari
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Caplin
2 2 (50.00%) RMDS
2 2 (50.00%) RDF
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Reuters
2 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Zenoss
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (25.00%) Murex
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (50.00%) Java SE
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) RDF
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Kalahari
1 2 (50.00%) Caplin
1 2 (50.00%) Reuters
1 2 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Sun
2 1 (25.00%) Murex