The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 21 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 49 61 67
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +6
Permanent jobs citing SLA 32 58 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 3.275% 4.164% 2.789%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 51.61% 52.25% 52.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 25
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -27.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £23,950 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £75,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +1.40%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
62 111 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 6.346% 7.968% 5.339%
Number of salaries quoted 59 90 53
Average salary £41,500 £32,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.71% -18.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £32,200
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £56,000 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Essex SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Brentwood - 8 £34,000 -
Colchester +14 2 £26,500 +6.00%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 42 (63.64%) Windows
2 39 (59.09%) Finance
3 36 (54.55%) Active Directory
4 29 (43.94%) VMware
5 28 (42.42%) DNS
6 23 (34.85%) Citrix
7 22 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 20 (30.30%) ITIL
9 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
9 18 (27.27%) VMware ESX
10 17 (25.76%) XenApp
11 16 (24.24%) Service Delivery
12 11 (16.67%) LDAP
12 11 (16.67%) SQL
13 10 (15.15%) IIS
13 10 (15.15%) DHCP
13 10 (15.15%) Change Management
14 7 (10.61%) Financial Institution
14 7 (10.61%) VMware ESXi
14 7 (10.61%) Service Management
14 7 (10.61%) Banking
14 7 (10.61%) Change Control
15 6 (9.091%) SAP
16 5 (7.576%) Linux
16 5 (7.576%) MS Office
16 5 (7.576%) Oracle
16 5 (7.576%) Kerberos
16 5 (7.576%) Red Hat
16 5 (7.576%) Shell Script
16 5 (7.576%) Content Management

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 2 (3.030%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.15%) IIS
2 4 (6.061%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (3.030%) Lync
3 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (3.030%) Apache
3 2 (3.030%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.576%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Agresso
1 1 (1.515%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.515%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 28 (42.42%) DNS
2 11 (16.67%) LDAP
3 10 (15.15%) DHCP
4 5 (7.576%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.545%) Firewall
6 2 (3.030%) SAN
6 2 (3.030%) LAN
6 2 (3.030%) VoIP
7 1 (1.515%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.515%) NGN
7 1 (1.515%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.545%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.030%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (3.030%) DB2
2 2 (3.030%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.030%) PowerBuilder
General
1 39 (59.09%) Finance
2 7 (10.61%) Financial Institution
2 7 (10.61%) Banking
3 3 (4.545%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.515%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.515%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.515%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Analyst
2 20 (30.30%) Support Analyst
3 16 (24.24%) Citrix Support
3 16 (24.24%) Citrix Support Analyst
4 6 (9.091%) Support Manager
4 6 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.576%) Server Support
5 5 (7.576%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (7.576%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (7.576%) Service Manager
5 5 (7.576%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.576%) SAP Manager
6 4 (6.061%) SAP Support
7 3 (4.545%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.545%) Services Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.545%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.545%) Team Leader
8 2 (3.030%) Production Manager
8 2 (3.030%) MI Analyst
8 2 (3.030%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) Smartphone
2 3 (4.545%) Blackberry
2 3 (4.545%) CMDB
2 3 (4.545%) Mobile Computing
3 2 (3.030%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.515%) EPoS
4 1 (1.515%) AS400
4 1 (1.515%) Clustering
4 1 (1.515%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 42 (63.64%) Windows
2 5 (7.576%) Linux
2 5 (7.576%) Windows 7
2 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.061%) Windows 2000 Server
4 3 (4.545%) Android
4 3 (4.545%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.515%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) ITIL
2 16 (24.24%) Service Delivery
3 10 (15.15%) Change Management
4 7 (10.61%) Service Management
4 7 (10.61%) Change Control
5 5 (7.576%) Content Management
5 5 (7.576%) Document Management
5 5 (7.576%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (3.030%) Performance Management
6 2 (3.030%) Resource Management
6 2 (3.030%) Business Analysis
6 2 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.030%) Project Management
6 2 (3.030%) CRM
6 2 (3.030%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.515%) BCP
7 1 (1.515%) Automated Testing
7 1 (1.515%) Load Balancing
7 1 (1.515%) Time Management
7 1 (1.515%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (7.576%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.030%) Java
3 2 (3.030%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.515%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (4.545%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.030%) CCNP
3 1 (1.515%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 22 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (27.27%) VMware ESX
4 17 (25.76%) XenApp
5 7 (10.61%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.030%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.515%) MetaFrame
7 1 (1.515%) XenServer
7 1 (1.515%) vSphere
Vendors
1 29 (43.94%) VMware
2 23 (34.85%) Citrix
3 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.091%) SAP
5 5 (7.576%) Oracle
5 5 (7.576%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.545%) HP
6 3 (4.545%) Dell
6 3 (4.545%) Apple
6 3 (4.545%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.030%) JBoss
8 1 (1.515%) Cisco
8 1 (1.515%) CODA
8 1 (1.515%) AppSense