Hemel Hempstead SLA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Hemel Hempstead 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Feltham Flintshire Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	20
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	83.33 %	30.00 %
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	£342	£330
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.66	£19.36
% change on same period last year	-8.77 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Hemel Hempstead
Matching contract IT job ads	6	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£291
Average daily rate	-	£298
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£358
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-8.73 %
SLA Herefordshire

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 Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

SLA
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 5 (62.50 %) ITIL 2 4 (50.00 %) Performance Management 3 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 4 2 (25.00 %) Government 4 2 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 1 (12.50 %) IBM 5 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 5 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification

5 1 (12.50 %) Thin Client 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 5 1 (12.50 %) Finance 5 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere 5 1 (12.50 %) Fat Client 5 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 1 (12.50 %) C 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Report Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Thin Client 1 1 (12.50 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) ITIL 2 4 (50.00 %) Performance Management 3 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 4 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix