The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 - 20 15
Contract jobs citing SLA 0 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - 0.806% 7.692%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 11.11% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 10
Average daily rate - - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+9.73% +0.89%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
7 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 3.535% 7.258% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
Average daily rate £350 £283 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.89% +8.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £277 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £289 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
SLA
Surrey

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) 2G
4 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) MCP
4 1 (16.67%) UMTS
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) GSM
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) 2G
3 1 (16.67%) UMTS
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) GSM
3 1 (16.67%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee