Midlands SLA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Midlands 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	63
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	7	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	53.85 %	28.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£550	£230
Average daily rate	£600	£235
% change on same period last year	+155.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£650	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£311
% change on same period last year	+3.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£19.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.49	£19.88
% change on same period last year	-7.00 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	13	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£550	£287
Average daily rate	£600	£290
% change on same period last year	+106.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£650	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£351
% change on same period last year	+6.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£26.33
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+12.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£26.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.19	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
SLA England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 2 3 (20.00 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (20.00 %) Finance 3 2 (13.33 %) Programme Management 3 2 (13.33 %) ITIL 3 2 (13.33 %) NHS 4 1 (6.667 %) Mapinfo 4 1 (6.667 %) Tivoli 4 1 (6.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) JCL 4 1 (6.667 %) UTRAN 4 1 (6.667 %) Mainframe 4 1 (6.667 %) COBOL 4 1 (6.667 %) Java 4 1 (6.667 %) Perl

4 1 (6.667 %) SQL 4 1 (6.667 %) VBA 4 1 (6.667 %) .NET 4 1 (6.667 %) MySQL 4 1 (6.667 %) Oracle 4 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 4 1 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (6.667 %) Business Objects 4 1 (6.667 %) IIS 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP 4 1 (6.667 %) XML 4 1 (6.667 %) Linux 4 1 (6.667 %) UML 4 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (6.667 %) Apache

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (6.667 %) .NET 1 1 (6.667 %) XML 1 1 (6.667 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.667 %) IIS 1 1 (6.667 %) Apache 1 1 (6.667 %) CICS
Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.667 %) LAN 1 1 (6.667 %) UMTS 1 1 (6.667 %) WAN 1 1 (6.667 %) UTRAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) MySQL 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Access 1 1 (6.667 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 2 3 (20.00 %) Finance 3 1 (6.667 %) Health 3 1 (6.667 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 2 (13.33 %) Programme Manager 1 2 (13.33 %) Analyst 1 2 (13.33 %) Contracts Manager 1 2 (13.33 %) Service Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (6.667 %) Team Leader 2 1 (6.667 %) Information Analyst 2 1 (6.667 %) Support Team Leader 2 1 (6.667 %) Delivery Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) Project Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) Linux Systems Administrator 2 1 (6.667 %) Linux Administrator 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP Support 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP Team Leader 2 1 (6.667 %) Customer Services Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) NHS Information Analyst 2 1 (6.667 %) NHS Project Manager 2 1 (6.667 %) Consultant 2 1 (6.667 %) Systems Administrator 2 1 (6.667 %) Commercial Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (13.33 %) NHS 2 1 (6.667 %) Mainframe 2 1 (6.667 %) VLE	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.667 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (20.00 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (13.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (13.33 %) Programme Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (6.667 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (6.667 %) UML 3 1 (6.667 %) ERP 3 1 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (6.667 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.667 %) ITSM 3 1 (6.667 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.667 %) Validation 3 1 (6.667 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) COBOL 1 1 (6.667 %) Java 1 1 (6.667 %) Perl 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL 1 1 (6.667 %) VBA 1 1 (6.667 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 1 (6.667 %) ISEB 1 1 (6.667 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 1 (6.667 %) Tivoli 1 1 (6.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle 1 1 (6.667 %) Business Objects 1 1 (6.667 %) SAP 1 1 (6.667 %) Nortel 1 1 (6.667 %) Nokia 1 1 (6.667 %) Siemens 1 1 (6.667 %) Mapinfo 1 1 (6.667 %) NEC 1 1 (6.667 %) Cramer