The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 33 31 47
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Contract jobs citing SLA 13 26 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 2.790% 4.377% 2.257%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.83% 78.79% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 9
Average daily rate £375 £225 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £170 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £316 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £255
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+9.73% +0.89%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
29 33 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 6.223% 5.556% 5.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 23
Average daily rate £325 £281 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.55% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £178 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £434 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
SLA
UK

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South Wales -6 8 £375 +36.36%
Mid Wales +2 2 - -
SLA
UK

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.69%) ITIL
4 5 (17.24%) MS Office
4 5 (17.24%) AS400
4 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
5 4 (13.79%) iSeries
5 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
6 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco
6 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) OS/400
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.897%) WebSphere
7 2 (6.897%) Degree
7 2 (6.897%) RNC
7 2 (6.897%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (6.897%) VMware
7 2 (6.897%) WAN
7 2 (6.897%) Banking
7 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
7 2 (6.897%) Release Management
7 2 (6.897%) Windows 7
7 2 (6.897%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (6.897%) Capacity Management
7 2 (6.897%) SAP

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (6.897%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.448%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Office
2 1 (3.448%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.448%) assyst
2 1 (3.448%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) RNC
1 2 (6.897%) WAN
1 2 (6.897%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (6.897%) ATM
1 2 (6.897%) GSM
1 2 (6.897%) LAN
1 2 (6.897%) SDH
1 2 (6.897%) UMTS
1 2 (6.897%) DAB
1 2 (6.897%) Wireless
2 1 (3.448%) Internet
2 1 (3.448%) VoIP
2 1 (3.448%) DHCP
2 1 (3.448%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.897%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.897%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) Support Analyst
3 7 (24.14%) Applications Support
3 7 (24.14%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) AS400 Support
5 2 (6.897%) Business Systems Manager
5 2 (6.897%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (6.897%) Business Manager
5 2 (6.897%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.897%) Systems Manager
5 2 (6.897%) Architect
5 2 (6.897%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (6.897%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.448%) Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) AS400
2 4 (13.79%) iSeries
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) OS/400
3 2 (6.897%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.897%) UNIX
3 2 (6.897%) AIX
4 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) ITIL
2 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.34%) Project Management
3 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
4 2 (6.897%) Release Management
4 2 (6.897%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.897%) Data Modelling
4 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.897%) Configuration Management
4 2 (6.897%) Change Management
5 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.448%) UML
5 1 (3.448%) OO
5 1 (3.448%) ERP
5 1 (3.448%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.448%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.897%) COBOL
1 2 (6.897%) RPG
1 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.448%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.897%) Degree
3 2 (6.897%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (6.897%) MCP
4 1 (3.448%) CIMA
4 1 (3.448%) ACCA
4 1 (3.448%) MCSE
4 1 (3.448%) CCIE
4 1 (3.448%) CCNP
4 1 (3.448%) CCIP
4 1 (3.448%) CCNA
4 1 (3.448%) CCDP
4 1 (3.448%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) vSphere
2 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 2 (6.897%) VMware
3 2 (6.897%) SAP
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle
3 2 (6.897%) IBM
3 2 (6.897%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (3.448%) Rackspace
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