The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 22 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 Coventry 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 20 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing SLA 9 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 4.306% 4.906% 2.825%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 52.94% 56.52% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
Average daily rate £93 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-76.87% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £91 £388 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £425 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £15.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 23 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 8.134% 8.679% 8.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
Average daily rate £220 £400 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 £15.75 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.46% +31.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
West Midlands

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry 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 Coventry region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (33.33%) MS Office
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) 3G
3 3 (20.00%) 2G
3 3 (20.00%) Data Management
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) VB
3 3 (20.00%) VBA
3 3 (20.00%) MS Access
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (13.33%) Ericsson
4 2 (13.33%) ATM
4 2 (13.33%) GSM
4 2 (13.33%) SDH
4 2 (13.33%) UMTS
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 1 (6.667%) BPR
5 1 (6.667%) Change Management
5 1 (6.667%) Cramer
5 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.667%) SAP
5 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
5 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.667%) SAP BW
5 1 (6.667%) SAP BI
5 1 (6.667%) Degree

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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.

Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) 3G
1 3 (20.00%) 2G
2 2 (13.33%) ATM
2 2 (13.33%) GSM
2 2 (13.33%) SDH
2 2 (13.33%) UMTS
3 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
3 1 (6.667%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (6.667%) SAP BW
2 1 (6.667%) SAP BI
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) German Language
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Junior
2 3 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) Junior Developer
2 3 (20.00%) MI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.667%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.667%) Coordinator
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Data Management
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) BPR
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
1 3 (20.00%) VB
1 3 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Ericsson
3 1 (6.667%) Cramer
3 1 (6.667%) SAP