The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 70 84 73
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Contract jobs citing SLA 9 13 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.778% 0.790% 1.536%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.31% 10.48% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
Average daily rate £364 £363 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.34% +42.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £203 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £438 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
+0.83% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £16.17
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
52 124 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 4.494% 7.533% 6.144%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 71 54
Average daily rate £390 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £250 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £518 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -45.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
SLA
South East

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sunbury-on-Thames +2 1 - -
Woking - 1 £175 -
Redhill - 1 £425 -
SLA
South East

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 13 (38.24%) Project Management
2 12 (35.29%) ITIL
3 9 (26.47%) Windows
4 8 (23.53%) Service Delivery
5 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
6 6 (17.65%) GSM
6 6 (17.65%) UMTS
6 6 (17.65%) Finance
6 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
7 5 (14.71%) LAN
7 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (11.76%) VPN
8 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange
8 4 (11.76%) MCP
8 4 (11.76%) MS Office
8 4 (11.76%) Change Management
9 3 (8.824%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (8.824%) Risk Management
9 3 (8.824%) VMware
9 3 (8.824%) Backup Exec
9 3 (8.824%) Incident Management
9 3 (8.824%) Load Balancing
9 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
9 3 (8.824%) Windows Vista
9 3 (8.824%) Windows 7
9 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
9 3 (8.824%) Windows XP
9 3 (8.824%) WAN
9 3 (8.824%) DNS

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 1 (2.941%) Application Packaging
1 1 (2.941%) .NET
1 1 (2.941%) RSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) MS Office
2 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) GSM
1 6 (17.65%) UMTS
2 5 (14.71%) LAN
3 4 (11.76%) VPN
4 3 (8.824%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (8.824%) WAN
4 3 (8.824%) DNS
5 2 (5.882%) Junos
5 2 (5.882%) Firewall
5 2 (5.882%) NetScreen
5 2 (5.882%) 3G
5 2 (5.882%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.941%) 2G
6 1 (2.941%) SMS
6 1 (2.941%) DHCP
6 1 (2.941%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
1 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.882%) Banking
2 2 (5.882%) Law
2 2 (5.882%) Legal
3 1 (2.941%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.941%) Billing
3 1 (2.941%) Marketing
3 1 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Service Manager
1 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
2 3 (8.824%) Services Delivery Manager
2 3 (8.824%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (8.824%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (8.824%) Consultant
3 2 (5.882%) Analyst
3 2 (5.882%) Support Analyst
3 2 (5.882%) Supplier Manager
3 2 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (5.882%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (5.882%) Firewall Consultant
4 1 (2.941%) Integration Manager
4 1 (2.941%) Transition Manager
4 1 (2.941%) Technical Leader
4 1 (2.941%) Citrix Support
4 1 (2.941%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (2.941%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (2.941%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (2.941%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) Clustering
1 1 (2.941%) Smartphone
1 1 (2.941%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.941%) CMDB
1 1 (2.941%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.941%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 3 (8.824%) Windows Vista
2 3 (8.824%) Windows 7
2 3 (8.824%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.882%) Linux
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.941%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Project Management
2 12 (35.29%) ITIL
3 8 (23.53%) Service Delivery
4 4 (11.76%) Change Management
5 3 (8.824%) Risk Management
5 3 (8.824%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.824%) Load Balancing
5 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
5 3 (8.824%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.882%) Network Architecture
6 2 (5.882%) Service Management
6 2 (5.882%) PRINCE2
6 2 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.882%) Release Management
7 1 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.941%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.941%) Data Management
7 1 (2.941%) Logistics
7 1 (2.941%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.941%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.941%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.941%) Perl
1 1 (2.941%) PHP
1 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (11.76%) MCP
3 2 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.882%) MCSE
4 1 (2.941%) Degree
4 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.941%) PMP
4 1 (2.941%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.941%) IBM Certification
4 1 (2.941%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.941%) CCEE
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.882%) XenApp
2 2 (5.882%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.941%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.941%) vSphere
3 1 (2.941%) XenServer
3 1 (2.941%) XenDesktop
3 1 (2.941%) IAG
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) Backup Exec
1 3 (8.824%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (5.882%) SCOM
3 1 (2.941%) SCCM
3 1 (2.941%) MOM
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.824%) VMware
2 3 (8.824%) McAfee
2 3 (8.824%) Citrix
2 3 (8.824%) Symantec
3 2 (5.882%) F5
3 2 (5.882%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.882%) Nokia
3 2 (5.882%) Cisco
3 2 (5.882%) SAP
3 2 (5.882%) TippingPoint
3 2 (5.882%) Blue Coat
3 2 (5.882%) Wyse
4 1 (2.941%) AppSense
4 1 (2.941%) LANDesk
4 1 (2.941%) HP
4 1 (2.941%) Dell
4 1 (2.941%) IBM
4 1 (2.941%) Juniper
4 1 (2.941%) Apple