The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 21 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 Northamptonshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 21 28 28
Rank change year-on-year
+7 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 8 14 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.200% 3.474% 1.476%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.11% 37.84% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 1
Average daily rate £350 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £8.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +111.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.98 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.50% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
19 37 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 7.600% 9.181% 3.321%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 4
Average daily rate £375 £403 £520
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.83% -22.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £325 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £488 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £8.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +105.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northampton +5 5 £350 -12.50%
Wellingborough - 1 - -
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
4 3 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) IIS
4 3 (20.00%) Lotus
4 3 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) VLAN
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) EIGRP
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
5 2 (13.33%) MPLS
5 2 (13.33%) CCNP
5 2 (13.33%) CCNA
5 2 (13.33%) MS Office
5 2 (13.33%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) VoIP
5 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) DHCP

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
1 3 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (13.33%) EIGRP
1 2 (13.33%) MPLS
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) VoIP
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) Network Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Supplier Relationship Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Change Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Incident Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Specialist
4 1 (6.667%) Business Change Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Change Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Relationships Manager
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.667%) UNIX
3 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.667%) BPR
3 1 (6.667%) SSADM
3 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (6.667%) ISMS
3 1 (6.667%) Project Planning
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.667%) ITSM
3 1 (6.667%) Workflow
3 1 (6.667%) Service Management
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Lotus
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco