The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 23 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 48 50 43
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -7
Permanent jobs citing SLA 11 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.282% 1.993% 2.332%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.83% 37.93% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 9
Average salary £35,000 £19,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+84.21% -41.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £19,000 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £42,400 £25,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,944
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +0.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
24 29 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 4.979% 5.254% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 34
Average salary £33,500 £28,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.64% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £19,000 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £51,750 £44,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
North West

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Preston +2 4 £30,000 +57.89%
Skelmersdale - 2 - -
Lytham St Annes - 2 £35,000 -
Blackburn - 1 £30,000 -
Blackpool - 1 - -
SLA
North West

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) Windows
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 4 (28.57%) IIS
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (28.57%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 4 (28.57%) Retail
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) SCCM
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
5 3 (21.43%) LAN
5 3 (21.43%) MS Office
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) C
5 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 2 (14.29%) Clustering
6 2 (14.29%) ITSM
6 2 (14.29%) Wireless
6 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) HP
6 2 (14.29%) Citrix
6 2 (14.29%) Juniper

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (28.57%) IIS
2 4 (28.57%) MS Exchange
3 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (14.29%) Lync
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (21.43%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) LAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (14.29%) Internet
3 2 (14.29%) VoIP
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) SMTP
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 2 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (14.29%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (7.143%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) DBA
1 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Coordinator
1 2 (14.29%) Storage Systems Administrator
1 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Team Leader
2 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
2 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (7.143%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (7.143%) Service Analyst
2 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Service Manager
2 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
1 2 (14.29%) EPoS
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.143%) Fat Client
2 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.143%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) OpenVMS
4 2 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
1 3 (21.43%) C
2 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) MCSA
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) vSphere
1 2 (14.29%) XenApp
1 2 (14.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) HP SIM
2 2 (14.29%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (7.143%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.143%) Avaya