The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 23 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 Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 52 50 45
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing SLA 22 18 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.997% 2.043% 1.558%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 43.14% 35.29% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
Average daily rate £375 £220 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.45% -32.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £72 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £321 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
Average hourly rate £15.50 £12.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.16% +9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
51 51 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.948% 5.789% 5.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 21
Average daily rate £319 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.11% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.25 £12.00 £11.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £10.80 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 £32.80 £20.00
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SLA Daily Rate Trend

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leeds SLA Daily Rate Histogram

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SLA across the Leeds region.

Leeds SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (38.89%) ITIL
2 8 (22.22%) Change Management
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 7 (19.44%) Release Management
4 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (16.67%) COBOL
4 6 (16.67%) CICS
4 6 (16.67%) zOS
5 5 (13.89%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (11.11%) LAN
6 4 (11.11%) WAN
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (11.11%) Control-M
6 4 (11.11%) Mainframe
6 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 4 (11.11%) MS Office
6 4 (11.11%) Finance
6 4 (11.11%) Service Management
6 4 (11.11%) ChangeMan
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
7 3 (8.333%) Fault Management
7 3 (8.333%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.333%) MS Excel
7 3 (8.333%) Windows XP
8 2 (5.556%) NHS
8 2 (5.556%) MS Exchange

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (2.778%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (16.67%) CICS
2 2 (5.556%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Office
2 3 (8.333%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.778%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) LAN
1 4 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (2.778%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.778%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) ChangeMan
General
1 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (2.778%) Banking
3 1 (2.778%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Legal
3 1 (2.778%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Service Manager
3 7 (19.44%) Service Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (8.333%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.333%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.556%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.556%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.556%) Help Desk Support Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) Transition Manager
6 2 (5.556%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Telephony Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Customer Services Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Teradata DBA
7 1 (2.778%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.556%) NHS
2 2 (5.556%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.778%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) zOS
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
4 3 (8.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.778%) Windows 8
5 1 (2.778%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) ITIL
2 8 (22.22%) Change Management
3 7 (19.44%) Release Management
4 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 4 (11.11%) Service Management
6 3 (8.333%) Fault Management
6 3 (8.333%) Service Delivery
7 2 (5.556%) Process Management
7 2 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.556%) ITSM
7 2 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (5.556%) Mobile Device Management
8 1 (2.778%) Software Deployment
8 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (2.778%) ITIL V2
8 1 (2.778%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (2.778%) Project Planning
8 1 (2.778%) Operations Management
8 1 (2.778%) Software Testing
8 1 (2.778%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (2.778%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.778%) C
2 1 (2.778%) SQL
2 1 (2.778%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.778%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (2.778%) Business Desktop Deployment
2 1 (2.778%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.778%) Citrix
2 1 (2.778%) Novell
2 1 (2.778%) Avaya