The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 13 28 32
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +4
Permanent jobs citing SLA 37 18 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 10.00% 4.800% 2.724%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 69.81% 37.50% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 33 15 7
Average salary £42,232 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.15% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,871 £42,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £36,000
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
53 48 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 14.32% 12.80% 8.560%
Number of salaries quoted 41 36 21
Average salary £42,232 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.15% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £37,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Bedfordshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Luton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Luton SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 15 (30.61%) Windows
1 15 (30.61%) Cisco
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) ITIL
2 10 (20.41%) C
3 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (18.37%) Degree
3 9 (18.37%) Unified Communications
4 8 (16.33%) LANDesk
4 8 (16.33%) PRINCE2
4 8 (16.33%) Novell
4 8 (16.33%) ZENworks
4 8 (16.33%) Service Management
5 7 (14.29%) LAN
5 7 (14.29%) WAN
5 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 7 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 6 (12.24%) SCCM
6 6 (12.24%) VoIP
6 6 (12.24%) Wireless
6 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
6 6 (12.24%) SAN
7 5 (10.20%) OCP
7 5 (10.20%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (10.20%) UNIX
7 5 (10.20%) Oracle
7 5 (10.20%) MS Office
7 5 (10.20%) Solaris
7 5 (10.20%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (10.20%) MS Excel

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 5 (10.20%) Software Packaging
2 3 (6.122%) Application Packaging
3 2 (4.082%) XML
3 2 (4.082%) XSL
3 2 (4.082%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.122%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.041%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) MS Office
1 5 (10.20%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Unified Communications
2 7 (14.29%) LAN
2 7 (14.29%) WAN
3 6 (12.24%) VoIP
3 6 (12.24%) Wireless
3 6 (12.24%) SAN
4 3 (6.122%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.041%) DHCP
5 1 (2.041%) FTP
5 1 (2.041%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (4.082%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.082%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.041%) DTS
4 1 (2.041%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 7
4 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Git (software)
1 1 (2.041%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.20%) Banking
3 3 (6.122%) Retail
3 3 (6.122%) Advertising
4 1 (2.041%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Service Manager
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) DBA
4 6 (12.24%) Network Manager
5 5 (10.20%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (10.20%) Administrator
5 5 (10.20%) Programmer
5 5 (10.20%) Incident Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Programmer
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Audio Programmer
5 5 (10.20%) Deployment Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Development Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Development Analyst
6 4 (8.163%) UNIX Administrator
7 3 (6.122%) Help Desk Support
7 3 (6.122%) Desktop Manager
7 3 (6.122%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.082%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) EPoS
2 2 (4.082%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.082%) Clustering
3 1 (2.041%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.041%) iPhone
3 1 (2.041%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) UNIX
2 5 (10.20%) Solaris
3 1 (2.041%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.041%) Windows 2000
3 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) ITIL
2 8 (16.33%) PRINCE2
2 8 (16.33%) Service Management
3 7 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (6.122%) ITSM
5 3 (6.122%) Software Deployment
5 3 (6.122%) Service Delivery
5 3 (6.122%) Six Sigma
6 2 (4.082%) Business Process Improvement
6 2 (4.082%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.082%) Network Design
7 1 (2.041%) Information Security
7 1 (2.041%) Performance Improvement
7 1 (2.041%) Change Control
7 1 (2.041%) Database Security
7 1 (2.041%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (2.041%) E-Commerce
7 1 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) C
2 2 (4.082%) SQL
3 1 (2.041%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.041%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) OCP
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (6.122%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (6.122%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.082%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.082%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.082%) CCNP
4 2 (4.082%) CCNA
5 1 (2.041%) MOS
5 1 (2.041%) Security+ Certification
5 1 (2.041%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.041%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (2.041%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.041%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.041%) MCSA
5 1 (2.041%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (10.20%) Novell eDirectory
3 1 (2.041%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) ZENworks
2 6 (12.24%) SCCM
3 5 (10.20%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.041%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Cisco
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) LANDesk
3 8 (16.33%) Novell
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle
5 1 (2.041%) VMware
5 1 (2.041%) Nimsoft
5 1 (2.041%) Twitter
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