The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SLA 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.676% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £33,250 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
25 16 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 6.983% 9.877% 1.271%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 2
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £44,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -32.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £29,000 £40,100
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £48,900 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Cheshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 5 (41.67%) Service Management
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Advertising
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (25.00%) Sun
2 3 (25.00%) OCP
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Veritas
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) MS Project
2 3 (25.00%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
2 3 (25.00%) Flash
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (25.00%) Release Management
2 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (25.00%) Database Security
3 2 (16.67%) Statistics
3 2 (16.67%) Publishing

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (25.00%) Flash
2 1 (8.333%) CSS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Project
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) SAP APO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) WLAN
1 1 (8.333%) RIP
1 1 (8.333%) VPN
1 1 (8.333%) SSL
1 1 (8.333%) 802.11
1 1 (8.333%) MPLS
1 1 (8.333%) OSPF
1 1 (8.333%) BGP
1 1 (8.333%) EIGRP
1 1 (8.333%) Firewall
1 1 (8.333%) Wireless
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (8.333%) FWSM
1 1 (8.333%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Advertising
2 2 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Service Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Client Services Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (25.00%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Service Level Manager
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support
5 1 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Support Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (8.333%) FMCG
3 1 (8.333%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Release Management
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (25.00%) Database Security
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.333%) ERP
4 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) OCP
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Sun
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.333%) Foundry
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco
3 1 (8.333%) Nokia