The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 19 - 18
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.724% - 4.237%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £168 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
10 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 8.621% 5.652% 7.627%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 9
Average daily rate £280 £370 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% -10.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £296 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £507 £432 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
West Yorkshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) OS/390
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) MVS
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) RACF
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) OS/390
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP