Lancashire SLA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Lancashire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne 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 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 Newport 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 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	36
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	2	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.33 %	68.18 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£500
Average daily rate	-	£525
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£339
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.98	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£16.73	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.48	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.88	£18.72
% change on same period last year	-4.48 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	15	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£393
Average daily rate	£341	£408
% change on same period last year	-16.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£361
% change on same period last year	+5.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.71	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£25.96	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+10.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.03	£24.95
% change on same period last year	-3.68 %
SLA North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

SLA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SLA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Burnley	-	2	-	-

SLA North West

SLA
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (28.57 %) Asset Management 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 1 2 (28.57 %) Dell 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL Certification 1 2 (28.57 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 1 (14.29 %) Health 2 1 (14.29 %) NHS 2 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft

2 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Health
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Service Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Delivery Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Performance Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Services Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Asset Management 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 1 2 (28.57 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP	System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Dell 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft