The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Uxbridge 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank - 19 17
Contract jobs citing SLA 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge - 0.820% 0.962%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 16.67% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £235 £178
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +32.39%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £258
% change year-on-year
- +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
14 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 12.96% 4.918% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
Average daily rate £430 £485 £449
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.34% +8.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £316 £354
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £712 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.65% -44.26%
SLA
London

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge SLA Hourly Rate Trend

SLA
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) LANDesk
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Service Continuity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) LANDesk