The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 45 29 36
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +7
Contract jobs citing SLA 18 34 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.951% 5.199% 4.596%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.96% 79.07% 58.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
Average daily rate £214 £350 £163
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.78% +114.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £335 £124
10% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £370 £212
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £258
% change year-on-year
- +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
Average hourly rate - £11.88 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -15.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
53 43 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 8.689% 6.575% 7.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 7
Average daily rate £415 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £301 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £397 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
Average hourly rate - £11.88 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -15.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.65% -44.26%
SLA
Buckinghamshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 23 (60.53%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
5 10 (26.32%) ITIL
6 9 (23.68%) UNIX
6 9 (23.68%) Service Delivery
7 8 (21.05%) Backup Exec
8 7 (18.42%) Linux
8 7 (18.42%) HP
9 6 (15.79%) Dell
9 6 (15.79%) IBM
9 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
9 6 (15.79%) MS Exchange
9 6 (15.79%) Tivoli
9 6 (15.79%) CommVault
9 6 (15.79%) Change Management
9 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
9 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
9 6 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
10 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (13.16%) Remedy
10 5 (13.16%) MCSE
11 4 (10.53%) Windows 2000
11 4 (10.53%) Oracle
11 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
11 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
11 4 (10.53%) CentOS
11 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) MS Exchange
1 6 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.632%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Staffware
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) Broadband
1 2 (5.263%) DHCP
1 2 (5.263%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.263%) VPN
1 2 (5.263%) DNS
1 2 (5.263%) Internet
1 2 (5.263%) Firewall
2 1 (2.632%) NAS
2 1 (2.632%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) OLTP
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.632%) DB2
1 1 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (7.895%) Finance
2 2 (5.263%) Banking
2 2 (5.263%) Retail
3 1 (2.632%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.632%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Support Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Administrator
2 4 (10.53%) Service Manager
3 3 (7.895%) Coordinator
3 3 (7.895%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (7.895%) Backup Specialist
3 3 (7.895%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (7.895%) Service Analyst
3 3 (7.895%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.263%) Service Operations Manager
4 2 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (5.263%) Operations Manager
5 1 (2.632%) Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (2.632%) Transition Manager
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.632%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (2.632%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) Mainframe
1 2 (5.263%) Derivative
1 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.263%) Clustering
2 1 (2.632%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.632%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 23 (60.53%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (23.68%) UNIX
5 7 (18.42%) Linux
6 4 (10.53%) Windows 2000
6 4 (10.53%) CentOS
7 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
7 3 (7.895%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (5.263%) Windows NT
8 2 (5.263%) Windows XP
8 2 (5.263%) Solaris
8 2 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (5.263%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.632%) Windows Vista
9 1 (2.632%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) ITIL
2 9 (23.68%) Service Delivery
3 6 (15.79%) Change Management
3 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
4 4 (10.53%) Capacity Management
5 3 (7.895%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (7.895%) Service Management
5 3 (7.895%) ITIL V3
6 2 (5.263%) Logistics
6 2 (5.263%) Validation
7 1 (2.632%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (2.632%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (2.632%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.632%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (2.632%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.895%) SQL
2 2 (5.263%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.263%) Bash shell
3 1 (2.632%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.16%) MCSE
4 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.895%) Degree
5 3 (7.895%) MCP
6 1 (2.632%) RHCE
6 1 (2.632%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.632%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Backup Exec
2 6 (15.79%) Tivoli
3 3 (7.895%) Control-M
4 2 (5.263%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (5.263%) SCCM
5 1 (2.632%) OVSD
5 1 (2.632%) SCOM
5 1 (2.632%) OpenView
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) HP
2 6 (15.79%) Dell
2 6 (15.79%) IBM
2 6 (15.79%) CommVault
3 5 (13.16%) Remedy
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.53%) VMware
5 3 (7.895%) LANDesk
5 3 (7.895%) Intel
6 2 (5.263%) Citrix
6 2 (5.263%) Symantec
6 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.263%) Sophos
7 1 (2.632%) NetApp
7 1 (2.632%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.632%) Cisco
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