The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 24 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 Nottinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 36 30 23
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -7
Contract jobs citing SLA 5 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 1.524% 2.837% 4.377%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.32% 38.10% 48.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £313 £410 £94
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.78% +338.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-1.72% +3.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
19 21 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 5.793% 7.447% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 18
Average daily rate £375 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.31% -3.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £289 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £418 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Nottingham -5 5 £313 -26.03%
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.091%) VLAN
5 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
5 1 (9.091%) Operations Management
5 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.091%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.091%) VMware
5 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.091%) Computacenter
5 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Logistics
5 1 (9.091%) Firewall
5 1 (9.091%) E-Procurement
5 1 (9.091%) Workflow
5 1 (9.091%) Legal
5 1 (9.091%) Validation
5 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.091%) Perl

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (9.091%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) VLAN
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (9.091%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Operations Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Applications Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Operations Director
2 1 (9.091%) SAP Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Procurement Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
2 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
1 1 (9.091%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.091%) MVS
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
5 1 (9.091%) Operations Management
5 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Logistics
5 1 (9.091%) E-Procurement
5 1 (9.091%) Workflow
5 1 (9.091%) Validation
5 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (9.091%) Perl
1 1 (9.091%) ActionScript
1 1 (9.091%) REXX
1 1 (9.091%) JCL
1 1 (9.091%) Python
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) VMware
2 1 (9.091%) Computacenter
2 1 (9.091%) SAP
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) Lotus
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco
2 1 (9.091%) IBM