The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 18 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 35 37 35
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SLA 11 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 4.490% 2.105% 2.500%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 61.11% 40.00% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 4
Average salary £50,000 £43,750 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +98.86%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,000 £35,944
% change year-on-year
+1.38% +0.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
18 10 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 7.347% 5.263% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 18
Average salary £40,000 £43,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% +45.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £22,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £43,370 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +1.23%
SLA
Bedfordshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford SLA Jobs Demand Trend

SLA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SLA across the Bedford region.

Bedford SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Bedford SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SLA.

1 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) CCIE
2 6 (50.00%) CCNP
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) MGCP
2 6 (50.00%) H.323
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CCVP
2 6 (50.00%) Tandberg
2 6 (50.00%) IPFX
2 6 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (41.67%) ZENworks
3 5 (41.67%) SCCM
3 5 (41.67%) Novell eDirectory
3 5 (41.67%) Software Packaging
3 5 (41.67%) LANDesk
3 5 (41.67%) Novell
3 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.333%) DHCP
4 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SLA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) MGCP
1 6 (50.00%) H.323
1 6 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Voice Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior Voice Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Development Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Development Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Deployment Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CCIE
1 6 (50.00%) CCNP
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (50.00%) CCVP
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (41.67%) ZENworks
2 5 (41.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Tandberg
2 6 (50.00%) IPFX
3 5 (41.67%) Novell
3 5 (41.67%) LANDesk
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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