Newbury SLA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Newbury 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	20	27
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£311
% change on same period last year	+3.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.37
Average hourly rate	-	£12.37
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£12.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.49	£19.88
% change on same period last year	-7.00 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	8	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£317
Average daily rate	£475	£317
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£351
% change on same period last year	+6.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.37
Average hourly rate	-	£12.37
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£12.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.19	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
SLA Berkshire

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 Newbury 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 Newbury 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 Newbury region.

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 2 3 (37.50 %) Remedy 3 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 2 (25.00 %) 2G 3 2 (25.00 %) Active Directory 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 3 2 (25.00 %) RNC 3 2 (25.00 %) 3G 3 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 4 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects

4 1 (12.50 %) Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) Ericsson 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 4 1 (12.50 %) MCP 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 1 (12.50 %) Broadband 4 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 (12.50 %) Application Packaging	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) 3G 1 2 (25.00 %) 2G 1 2 (25.00 %) RNC 2 1 (12.50 %) Broadband 2 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Performance Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Strategy Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Process Management
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCP 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 1 3 (37.50 %) Remedy 2 1 (12.50 %) Ericsson 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft