Derbyshire SLA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Derbyshire region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Jersey Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	40
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£331
% change on same period last year	-8.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.25	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£9.26	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-47.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.26	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.36	£17.38
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	8	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£316
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.13	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£23.13	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+32.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.13	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.86	£22.78
% change on same period last year	+9.12 %
SLA East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SLA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SLA across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

SLA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SLA across the Derbyshire region.

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SLA across the Derbyshire region.

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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	+7	1	-	-

SLA East Midlands

SLA
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 (60.00 %) Knowledge Management 2 1 (20.00 %) Windows

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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.

Job Titles 1 2 (40.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (40.00 %) Service Analyst 1 2 (40.00 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 1 (20.00 %) 1st Line Support	Operating Systems 1 1 (20.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (60.00 %) Knowledge Management