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The table below looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Guildford 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkService Level Agreement (SLA)
Location
3 months to
7 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank1422
Rank change on same period last yearUp+8
Matching contract IT job ads35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.005 %
As % of the category below60.00 %83.33 %
Daily rates quoted03
Average minimum daily rate-£317
Average daily rate-£317
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£317
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£305
% change on same period last year+6.49 %
Hourly rates quoted20
Average minimum hourly rate£15.00-
Average hourly rate£15.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£15.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.45£19.91
% change on same period last year-7.31 %
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
Guildford
Matching contract IT job ads56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.007 %0.006 %
Daily rates quoted23
Average minimum daily rate£275£317
Average daily rate£280£317
% change on same period last year-11.57 %
Average maximum daily rate£285£317
UK excluding London average daily rate£371£348
% change on same period last year+6.78 %
Hourly rates quoted20
Average minimum hourly rate£15.00-
Average hourly rate£15.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£15.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.04£25.88
% change on same period last year-3.23 %
SLA SurreySLA
Surrey

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 Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Guildford SLA Demand Trend

SLA
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Guildford SLA Hourly Rate Histogram

SLA
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

12 (33.33 %)MS Exchange
12 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
12 (33.33 %)Active Directory
12 (33.33 %)Windows
12 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (16.67 %)DTS
21 (16.67 %)Windows XP
21 (16.67 %)MOS
21 (16.67 %)Toshiba
21 (16.67 %)Back Office
21 (16.67 %)Telecoms
21 (16.67 %)Backup Exec
21 (16.67 %)HP
21 (16.67 %)Compaq
21 (16.67 %)Dell
21 (16.67 %)Citrix
21 (16.67 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (16.67 %)EPoS
21 (16.67 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (16.67 %)LAN
21 (16.67 %)DHCP
21 (16.67 %)TCP/IP
21 (16.67 %)VPN
21 (16.67 %)DNS
21 (16.67 %)SQL
21 (16.67 %)Transact-SQL
21 (16.67 %).NET
21 (16.67 %)MS Office
21 (16.67 %)MCP

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (16.67 %).NET
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (33.33 %)MS Exchange
12 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (16.67 %)MS Office
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (16.67 %)LAN
11 (16.67 %)DHCP
11 (16.67 %)TCP/IP
11 (16.67 %)VPN
11 (16.67 %)DNS
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (16.67 %)DTS
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (16.67 %)Back Office
11 (16.67 %)Telecoms
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (33.33 %)Helpdesk Support
12 (33.33 %)2nd Line Support
21 (16.67 %)Field Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Hardware Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Helpdesk Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Break Fix Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Desktop Support
21 (16.67 %)Technical Support
21 (16.67 %)Field Service Engineer
21 (16.67 %)1st Line Support
21 (16.67 %)Support Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Applications Support
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (16.67 %)EPoS
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (33.33 %)Windows
12 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (16.67 %)Windows XP
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (16.67 %)SQL
11 (16.67 %)Transact-SQL
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (16.67 %)MCP
11 (16.67 %)Microsoft Certification
11 (16.67 %)MOS
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (16.67 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12 (33.33 %)Active Directory
21 (16.67 %)Backup Exec
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (16.67 %)HP
11 (16.67 %)Compaq
11 (16.67 %)Dell
11 (16.67 %)Citrix
11 (16.67 %)Toshiba