The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 23 27
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing SLA 3 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.500% 2.913% 3.571%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 23.68% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
Average daily rate £475 £326 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.59% -10.00%
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 £14.25 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-1.72% +3.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
18 38 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 9.000% 12.30% 7.440%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 14
Average daily rate £313 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £303 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £650 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
SLA
South East

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) DSL
3 1 (20.00%) TELNET
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (20.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
1 1 (20.00%) TELNET
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) SAP