SLA Contracts in Cardiff
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 24 18 18
Rank change year-on-year
-6 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 5 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.717% 7.556% 7.025%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.45% 73.91% 65.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
Average daily rate £375 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
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 - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-1.72% +3.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 11 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 5.978% 10.22% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 17
Average daily rate £375 £293 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £212 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £384 £385
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 - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
SLA
South Wales

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) MS Office
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) AS400
4 4 (26.67%) iSeries
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) OS/400
6 2 (13.33%) MCSE
6 2 (13.33%) LAN
6 2 (13.33%) WAN
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco
6 2 (13.33%) IBM
6 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (13.33%) Internet
6 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) AIX
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) MCP
6 2 (13.33%) UNIX
6 2 (13.33%) COBOL
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) RPG
6 2 (13.33%) Oracle
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (13.33%) DB2
6 2 (13.33%) IIS
6 2 (13.33%) Wireless
6 2 (13.33%) Banking

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
2 1 (6.667%) DHCP
2 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) TestDirector
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Support Analyst
3 7 (46.67%) Applications Support
3 7 (46.67%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) AS400 Support
5 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Team Leader
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Support Team Leader
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Support Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) AS400
2 4 (26.67%) iSeries
3 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) OS/400
3 2 (13.33%) AIX
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
4 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.667%) UML
3 1 (6.667%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (13.33%) COBOL
1 2 (13.33%) RPG
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) MCSE
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (13.33%) MCP
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.667%) CCIE
2 1 (6.667%) CCNP
2 1 (6.667%) CCIP
2 1 (6.667%) CCDP
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Rackspace
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