The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 89 77 88
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +11
Permanent jobs citing SLA 30 38 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.778% 2.238% 1.660%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.44% 34.23% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 20
Average salary £28,000 £37,500 £25,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.33% +45.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,600 £26,250 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £50,000 £40,100
UK excluding London average salary £36,736 £36,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+2.04% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
172 111 142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 10.20% 6.537% 7.606%
Number of salaries quoted 126 99 106
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,950 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
SLA
South West

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bristol SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 46 (67.65%) SQL
2 29 (42.65%) Microsoft
3 27 (39.71%) C#
4 23 (33.82%) .NET
5 22 (32.35%) SQL Server
6 20 (29.41%) MS Excel
7 19 (27.94%) Legal
8 18 (26.47%) T-SQL
9 16 (23.53%) ITIL
10 15 (22.06%) PHP
10 15 (22.06%) Finance
10 15 (22.06%) Management Information System
11 14 (20.59%) Degree
12 13 (19.12%) LINQ
12 13 (19.12%) jQuery
12 13 (19.12%) Unit Testing
12 13 (19.12%) Ajax
12 13 (19.12%) Marketing
12 13 (19.12%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (19.12%) MVC
12 13 (19.12%) Project Management
12 13 (19.12%) NUnit
12 13 (19.12%) Automated Testing
12 13 (19.12%) Software Engineering
12 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
12 13 (19.12%) Visual Studio
12 13 (19.12%) PRINCE
13 11 (16.18%) Windows
13 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Integration Services

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 23 (33.82%) .NET
2 13 (19.12%) LINQ
2 13 (19.12%) jQuery
2 13 (19.12%) Ajax
3 6 (8.824%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.882%) WinForms
5 1 (1.471%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.882%) MS Exchange
2 3 (4.412%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (4.412%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.471%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.471%) Apache
4 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.471%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.471%) IIS
4 1 (1.471%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 20 (29.41%) MS Excel
2 5 (7.353%) FastStats
2 5 (7.353%) MS Office
3 1 (1.471%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.353%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.471%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.353%) TCP/IP
1 5 (7.353%) DNS
2 4 (5.882%) Firewall
2 4 (5.882%) DHCP
3 3 (4.412%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (4.412%) SAN
3 3 (4.412%) VoIP
3 3 (4.412%) IPsec
4 2 (2.941%) WAN
4 2 (2.941%) VPN
4 2 (2.941%) LAN
4 2 (2.941%) MPLS
4 2 (2.941%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.471%) Junos
5 1 (1.471%) xDSL
5 1 (1.471%) OSPF
5 1 (1.471%) Internet
5 1 (1.471%) ATM
5 1 (1.471%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.471%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (8.824%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (7.353%) QlikView
4 5 (7.353%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (7.353%) DTS
4 5 (7.353%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.412%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.471%) MySQL
6 1 (1.471%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Team Foundation Server
1 13 (19.12%) NUnit
1 13 (19.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (27.94%) Legal
2 15 (22.06%) Finance
3 13 (19.12%) Marketing
4 3 (4.412%) Advertising
5 2 (2.941%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.471%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Analyst
2 15 (22.06%) Software Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Support Analyst
5 10 (14.71%) DBA
6 9 (13.24%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.824%) Applications Support
7 6 (8.824%) MI Analyst
8 5 (7.353%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (7.353%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (7.353%) Oracle Applications DBA
9 3 (4.412%) Incident Manager
10 2 (2.941%) Network Administrator
10 2 (2.941%) Senior Support Engineer
10 2 (2.941%) Software Support Engineer
10 2 (2.941%) Service Manager
10 2 (2.941%) IT Support Engineer
10 2 (2.941%) Developer
10 2 (2.941%) 2nd Line Support
10 2 (2.941%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Management Information System
2 10 (14.71%) Statistics
3 5 (7.353%) Data Extraction
4 3 (4.412%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.471%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Windows
2 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (8.824%) Linux
4 4 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.412%) UNIX
6 2 (2.941%) Solaris
6 2 (2.941%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.471%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.471%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.471%) CentOS
7 1 (1.471%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) ITIL
2 13 (19.12%) Unit Testing
2 13 (19.12%) MVC
2 13 (19.12%) Project Management
2 13 (19.12%) Automated Testing
2 13 (19.12%) Software Engineering
2 13 (19.12%) PRINCE
3 10 (14.71%) Resource Management
4 8 (11.76%) Problem Management
4 8 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 7 (10.29%) Service Management
6 6 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (7.353%) Kimball Methodology
7 5 (7.353%) ETL
7 5 (7.353%) ERP
8 4 (5.882%) OO
8 4 (5.882%) CRM
8 4 (5.882%) Integration Testing
9 3 (4.412%) Project Planning
9 3 (4.412%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) SQL
2 27 (39.71%) C#
3 18 (26.47%) T-SQL
4 15 (22.06%) PHP
5 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.824%) VBA
7 4 (5.882%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.941%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.471%) VB
9 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Degree
2 6 (8.824%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.882%) CCNA
3 4 (5.882%) MCITP
4 3 (4.412%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.941%) MCSE
5 2 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.941%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.471%) MCTS
6 1 (1.471%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.471%) CCNP
6 1 (1.471%) MCP
6 1 (1.471%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.471%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.412%) vSphere
2 3 (4.412%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (2.941%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.471%) XenApp
4 1 (1.471%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.471%) SCCM
1 1 (1.471%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (1.471%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (42.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Oracle
3 7 (10.29%) VMware
4 5 (7.353%) Unica
4 5 (7.353%) NetSuite
4 5 (7.353%) HP
4 5 (7.353%) Dell
4 5 (7.353%) Citrix
4 5 (7.353%) Cisco
5 2 (2.941%) McAfee
5 2 (2.941%) IBM
5 2 (2.941%) F5
5 2 (2.941%) Capita
6 1 (1.471%) Twitter
6 1 (1.471%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.471%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.471%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.471%) Websense
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