The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gateshead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 24 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 Gateshead region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank - 5 7
Permanent jobs citing SLA 0 27 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gateshead - 29.67% 11.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 67.50% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 18 3
Average salary - £38,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £36,000
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Gateshead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
0 40 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gateshead - 43.96% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 0 27 5
Average salary - £42,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +32.81%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Tyne and Wear

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gateshead 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 Gateshead region.

Gateshead SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gateshead 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 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) SSH
2 2 (50.00%) Xen
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Peregrine
3 1 (25.00%) Lotus
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gateshead 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) SUSE
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Xen
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Peregrine
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft