SLA Contracts in South Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 29 19 25
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +6
Contract jobs citing SLA 10 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 3.268% 5.426% 5.211%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 52.63% 61.76% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 15
Average daily rate £375 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £196 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £369 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £261
% change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.95 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.66% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 19 34 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 6.209% 8.786% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 30
Average daily rate £328 £298 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.08% -4.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £213 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £465 £377
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
SLA
Wales

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cardiff -1 6 £375 +50.00%
Newport -1 3 £110 -
SLA
Wales

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (30.77%) Windows
4 7 (26.92%) MS Office
5 6 (23.08%) VoIP
6 5 (19.23%) AS400
7 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) iSeries
7 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
8 3 (11.54%) Project Management
8 3 (11.54%) OS/400
8 3 (11.54%) Cisco
8 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
8 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) MCP
8 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
9 2 (7.692%) DB2
9 2 (7.692%) IIS
9 2 (7.692%) COBOL
9 2 (7.692%) HTML
9 2 (7.692%) RPG
9 2 (7.692%) SQL
9 2 (7.692%) Oracle
9 2 (7.692%) UNIX
9 2 (7.692%) AIX
9 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (7.692%) IBM
9 2 (7.692%) WAN

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (7.692%) HTML
1 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) MS Office
2 1 (3.846%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.846%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) VoIP
2 2 (7.692%) WAN
2 2 (7.692%) Internet
2 2 (7.692%) DAB
2 2 (7.692%) Wireless
2 2 (7.692%) LAN
3 1 (3.846%) DHCP
3 1 (3.846%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Support Analyst
3 7 (26.92%) Applications Support
3 7 (26.92%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (19.23%) IT Manager
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (11.54%) AS400 Support
7 2 (7.692%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (7.692%) Network Engineer
7 2 (7.692%) Service Analyst
7 2 (7.692%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (7.692%) Architect
8 1 (3.846%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Technical Support
8 1 (3.846%) Functional Consultant
8 1 (3.846%) Help Desk Support
8 1 (3.846%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.846%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (3.846%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) AS400
2 4 (15.38%) iSeries
3 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) OS/400
3 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.692%) AIX
3 2 (7.692%) UNIX
4 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
2 3 (11.54%) Project Management
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 2 (7.692%) Incident Management
3 2 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.846%) UML
4 1 (3.846%) OO
4 1 (3.846%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.692%) COBOL
1 2 (7.692%) RPG
1 2 (7.692%) SQL
1 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) MCP
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.692%) Degree
3 2 (7.692%) MCSE
4 1 (3.846%) CCIE
4 1 (3.846%) CCNP
4 1 (3.846%) CCIP
4 1 (3.846%) CCNA
4 1 (3.846%) CCDP
4 1 (3.846%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.846%) vSphere
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 2 (7.692%) IBM
3 2 (7.692%) VMware
3 2 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (3.846%) Rackspace
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