Reading SLA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Level Agreement (SLA) skills within the Reading 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 15 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 Stratford-upon-Avon 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 Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	61
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	38	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	59.38 %	19.51 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£308
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.11	£12.33
Average hourly rate	£36.17	£13.00
% change on same period last year	+178.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.22	£13.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.23	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-5.52 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	64	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	10	16
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£318
Average daily rate	£452	£331
% change on same period last year	+36.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£350
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.24	£12.33
Average hourly rate	£33.15	£13.00
% change on same period last year	+155.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.06	£13.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.14	£25.11
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region.

SLA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SLA across the Reading region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 25 (41.67 %) 3G 2 14 (23.33 %) 2G 3 13 (21.67 %) Workflow 4 12 (20.00 %) Windows 5 11 (18.33 %) Nokia 6 10 (16.67 %) ITIL 7 8 (13.33 %) Telecoms 8 7 (11.67 %) SQL 8 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 8 7 (11.67 %) Windows Server 2003 8 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 2000 8 7 (11.67 %) MCTS 8 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 2005 9 6 (10.00 %) Auditing 9 6 (10.00 %) Load Balancing

9 6 (10.00 %) Network Security 9 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (10.00 %) SAN 9 6 (10.00 %) MCP 9 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft 9 6 (10.00 %) Front Office 9 6 (10.00 %) Clustering 10 5 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 10 5 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (8.333 %) GSM 10 5 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 10 5 (8.333 %) SGSN 10 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (5.000 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 2 (3.333 %) Live Communications Server
Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 25 (41.67 %) 3G 2 14 (23.33 %) 2G 3 6 (10.00 %) SAN 3 6 (10.00 %) Network Security 4 5 (8.333 %) SGSN 4 5 (8.333 %) GSM 5 2 (3.333 %) LAN 5 2 (3.333 %) SDH 5 2 (3.333 %) WAN 5 2 (3.333 %) ATM 6 1 (1.667 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 1 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 2000 1 7 (11.67 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 8 (13.33 %) Telecoms 2 6 (10.00 %) Front Office 2 6 (10.00 %) Auditing 3 2 (3.333 %) Law 3 2 (3.333 %) Military 4 1 (1.667 %) Retail 4 1 (1.667 %) Finance 4 1 (1.667 %) Education 4 1 (1.667 %) Health
Job Titles 1 11 (18.33 %) Network Engineer 2 6 (10.00 %) Developer 2 6 (10.00 %) SQL Developer 2 6 (10.00 %) Performance Engineer 2 6 (10.00 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 3 5 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support 4 3 (5.000 %) Project Leader 5 2 (3.333 %) Helpdesk Support 5 2 (3.333 %) Analyst 5 2 (3.333 %) Coordinator 5 2 (3.333 %) Junior 5 2 (3.333 %) Support Technician 5 2 (3.333 %) IT Support Technician 5 2 (3.333 %) ATM Engineer 6 1 (1.667 %) SQL DBA 6 1 (1.667 %) Network Support 6 1 (1.667 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (1.667 %) Contracts Manager 6 1 (1.667 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (1.667 %) DBA	Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.00 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 12 (20.00 %) Windows 2 7 (11.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (3.333 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.667 %) AIX 4 1 (1.667 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (21.67 %) Workflow 2 10 (16.67 %) ITIL 3 6 (10.00 %) Load Balancing 4 5 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 4 5 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 4 5 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (6.667 %) Change Management 5 4 (6.667 %) Performance Management 6 3 (5.000 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.333 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (1.667 %) Service Management 8 1 (1.667 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 7 (11.67 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (11.67 %) MCTS 2 6 (10.00 %) MCP 2 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (6.667 %) MCSE 3 4 (6.667 %) MCSA 4 2 (3.333 %) MOS 5 1 (1.667 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.667 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.667 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (18.33 %) Nokia 2 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft 3 4 (6.667 %) Ericsson 3 4 (6.667 %) NEC 4 1 (1.667 %) Kerridge 4 1 (1.667 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (1.667 %) SonicWALL 4 1 (1.667 %) Finjan 4 1 (1.667 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (1.667 %) Websense 4 1 (1.667 %) Clearswift 4 1 (1.667 %) Juniper