The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 17 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 32 35 39
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Permanent jobs citing SLA 4 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.980% 1.000% 0.488%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.53% 15.38% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
Average salary £42,500 £21,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+102.38% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 13 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 8.416% 6.500% 3.902%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 6
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £44,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,250 £60,000 £56,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Hampshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Back Office
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) HP SIM
4 2 (33.33%) SCOM
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Symantec
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
1 2 (33.33%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper