SLA Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 24 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 Lancashire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 22 39 30
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -9
Contract jobs citing SLA 12 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 5.687% 0.728% 0.862%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.44% 10.71% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-1.72% +3.57%
Search 2 SLA jobs in Lancashire
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 27 28 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 12.80% 6.796% 3.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 3
Average daily rate £325 £423 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £155 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £497 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
Average hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
SLA
North West

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Contract Locations

The table below 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 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Preston +15 5 - -
SLA
North West

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (85.71%) Windows
3 11 (78.57%) Citrix
3 11 (78.57%) SCCM
4 10 (71.43%) Blackberry
5 9 (64.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (64.29%) Windows Vista
5 9 (64.29%) CA
5 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
5 9 (64.29%) MS Office
5 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
5 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
5 9 (64.29%) Windows 7
6 8 (57.14%) Lumension
6 8 (57.14%) Software Deployment
6 8 (57.14%) AppSense
7 7 (50.00%) Windows XP
8 4 (28.57%) TQM
9 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
10 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
10 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
10 2 (14.29%) HP
10 2 (14.29%) Dell
10 2 (14.29%) SAN
10 2 (14.29%) MSI
10 2 (14.29%) Firewall
10 2 (14.29%) Wireless
10 2 (14.29%) VMware
10 2 (14.29%) Clustering

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) Application Packaging
2 1 (7.143%) Ajax
2 1 (7.143%) .NET Remoting
2 1 (7.143%) WCF
2 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
2 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.143%) COM
2 1 (7.143%) DCOM
2 1 (7.143%) SOAP
2 1 (7.143%) Web Services
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) XSD
2 1 (7.143%) ActiveX
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (7.143%) Lync
2 1 (7.143%) IIS
2 1 (7.143%) MSMQ
Applications
1 9 (64.29%) MS Office
2 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Wireless
1 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MSI
2 1 (7.143%) TortoiseSVN
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
General
1 1 (7.143%) Banking
1 1 (7.143%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Support Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support
5 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) SCCM Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (7.143%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (7.143%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (7.143%) Service Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Blackberry
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Vista
2 9 (64.29%) Windows 7
3 7 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Software Deployment
2 4 (28.57%) TQM
3 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (7.143%) Process Improvement
4 1 (7.143%) MVVM
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Integration Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.143%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (7.143%) ITIL
4 1 (7.143%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) VB6
1 1 (7.143%) C#
1 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
1 1 (7.143%) VB
1 1 (7.143%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft App-V
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) SCCM
2 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (78.57%) Citrix
3 9 (64.29%) CA
4 8 (57.14%) Lumension
4 8 (57.14%) AppSense
5 2 (14.29%) HP
5 2 (14.29%) Dell
5 2 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
SCCM SUPPORT ENGINEER - SC CLEARED
Preston, Lancashire
Provides account administration support via Active Directory. * Provides request fulfilment support across varying services such as Software Deployment Main Responsibilities * Problem solve across MS Office Suite, operating systems (...
LA International
Posted: 20 May 2013
DESKTOP SUPPORT ENGINEER / 2ND LINE SUPPORT - SC CLEARED
Preston, Lancashire
Provides account administration support via Active Directory. * Provides request fulfilment support across varying services such as Software Deployment Main Responsibilities * Problem solve across MS Office Suite, operating systems (...
LA International
Posted: 20 May 2013
Find IT Jobs| About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Friday 24 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.