The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 17 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 Nottingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 33 25 18
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -7
Contract jobs citing SLA 5 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.754% 2.703% 4.661%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.25% 33.33% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
Average daily rate £313 £423 £94
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.03% +351.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £261
% change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.95 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.66% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
16 18 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 5.614% 8.108% 8.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
Average daily rate £375 £290 £287
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.31% +0.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £290 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
SLA
Nottinghamshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Lotus
4 1 (11.11%) REXX
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) MVS
4 1 (11.11%) JCL
4 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 1 (11.11%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
General
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) MVS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) REXX
1 1 (11.11%) JCL
1 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Lotus
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) Computacenter