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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 28 51 60
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +9
Permanent jobs citing SLA 28 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 5.374% 1.406% 1.565%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.42% 14.29% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 10
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +22.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £40,000 £42,750
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £53,000 £63,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £36,000
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
66 49 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.67% 9.839% 8.108%
Number of salaries quoted 58 46 39
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
South East

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (38.46%) ITIL
2 14 (35.90%) Oracle
2 14 (35.90%) Project Management
3 11 (28.21%) Service Delivery
4 10 (25.64%) Service Management
5 7 (17.95%) Finance
5 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
5 7 (17.95%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (17.95%) ERP
6 6 (15.38%) Windows
6 6 (15.38%) Linux
6 6 (15.38%) C
6 6 (15.38%) EMC
6 6 (15.38%) Banking
6 6 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 6 (15.38%) Oracle Coherence
6 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (15.38%) ITSM
7 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Change Management
7 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 5 (12.82%) UNIX
8 4 (10.26%) MS Exchange
8 4 (10.26%) HTML
8 4 (10.26%) XML
8 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
8 4 (10.26%) Intranet
8 4 (10.26%) Internet
8 4 (10.26%) Cisco
8 4 (10.26%) LAN

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (10.26%) HTML
1 4 (10.26%) XML
2 3 (7.692%) .NET
3 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.564%) jQuery
4 1 (2.564%) JSTL
4 1 (2.564%) FreeMarker
4 1 (2.564%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.564%) CSS
4 1 (2.564%) JSP
4 1 (2.564%) XSLT
4 1 (2.564%) J2EE
4 1 (2.564%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (10.26%) MS Exchange
3 3 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.128%) CMS
5 1 (2.564%) WordPress
5 1 (2.564%) nginx
5 1 (2.564%) Joomla!
5 1 (2.564%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.564%) Apache
5 1 (2.564%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Office
2 1 (2.564%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.564%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.128%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.564%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Intranet
1 4 (10.26%) Internet
1 4 (10.26%) LAN
1 4 (10.26%) WAN
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
1 4 (10.26%) Wireless
1 4 (10.26%) BIG-IP
1 4 (10.26%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (7.692%) DNS
3 2 (5.128%) IMAP4
3 2 (5.128%) POP3
3 2 (5.128%) SMTP
3 2 (5.128%) DHCP
3 2 (5.128%) HTTP
4 1 (2.564%) SAN
4 1 (2.564%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) MySQL
2 2 (5.128%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.564%) OLAP
3 1 (2.564%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.564%) Cognos Powerplay
Development Applications
1 2 (5.128%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
1 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (5.128%) Back Office
4 1 (2.564%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Service Manager
2 7 (17.95%) Business Manager
3 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 6 (15.38%) Business Project Manager
3 6 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
3 6 (15.38%) Strategic Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Services Delivery Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
4 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.692%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 3 (7.692%) Data Centre Manager
5 3 (7.692%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.128%) Consultant
6 2 (5.128%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Support Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Applications Support Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Service Desk Manager
7 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 1 (2.564%) Service Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.128%) Thin Client
2 2 (5.128%) Digital Media
2 2 (5.128%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.564%) CMDB
3 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) UNIX
3 3 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.564%) Fedora
5 1 (2.564%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) ITIL
2 14 (35.90%) Project Management
3 11 (28.21%) Service Delivery
4 10 (25.64%) Service Management
5 7 (17.95%) ERP
6 6 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 6 (15.38%) ITSM
7 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Change Management
8 4 (10.26%) Problem Management
9 3 (7.692%) Capacity Management
9 3 (7.692%) Configuration Management
9 3 (7.692%) E-Commerce
10 2 (5.128%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (5.128%) Knowledge Management
10 2 (5.128%) Continuous Improvement
11 1 (2.564%) Change Control
11 1 (2.564%) Budget Control
11 1 (2.564%) Analytics
11 1 (2.564%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) C
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.128%) PHP
4 1 (2.564%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.564%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.564%) Java
4 1 (2.564%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.564%) Perl
4 1 (2.564%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.564%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (7.692%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.128%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.564%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (2.564%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) EMC
3 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) F5
4 3 (7.692%) VMware
4 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.128%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.128%) Remedy
6 1 (2.564%) Sun
6 1 (2.564%) Cognos