The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hayes 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 Hayes 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 4 - 5
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hayes 16.67% - 13.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
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
Hayes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hayes 16.67% - 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
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
London

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hayes 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 Hayes region.

Hayes 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 Hayes region.

Hayes SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hayes 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus