The first table below looks at the demand for SLA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SLA over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 83 77 107
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +30
Permanent jobs citing SLA 75 83 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 2.350% 2.371% 1.433%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.24% 38.25% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 33
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £21,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,944
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +0.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
248 217 308
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 7.772% 6.200% 9.008%
Number of salaries quoted 132 146 229
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,200 £28,500 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
UK

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow -10 22 £40,000 +45.45%
Edinburgh -16 20 £26,000 -52.72%
Aberdeen +13 15 £40,000 -11.11%
Highlands -8 11 - -
Renfrewshire +13 3 - -
Stirling - 2 £28,250 -
SLA
UK

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 59 (40.41%) ITIL
1 59 (40.41%) Windows
2 48 (32.88%) SQL
3 44 (30.14%) Microsoft
4 42 (28.77%) Service Delivery
5 37 (25.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 36 (24.66%) Windows Server 2003
7 35 (23.97%) UNIX
8 34 (23.29%) Finance
9 30 (20.55%) Active Directory
10 27 (18.49%) Oracle
10 27 (18.49%) SQL Server
11 26 (17.81%) VMware
12 24 (16.44%) SCCM
13 23 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
13 23 (15.75%) MS Office
14 22 (15.07%) MS Excel
15 19 (13.01%) Citrix
15 19 (13.01%) Incident Management
16 17 (11.64%) Linux
16 17 (11.64%) IIS
17 16 (10.96%) MS Exchange
18 15 (10.27%) CommVault
18 15 (10.27%) Degree
19 14 (9.589%) Windows XP
19 14 (9.589%) DNS
20 13 (8.904%) Java
20 13 (8.904%) SAN
20 13 (8.904%) WSUS
20 13 (8.904%) SC Cleared

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (4.795%) .NET
1 7 (4.795%) ASP.NET
2 6 (4.110%) WebSphere
2 6 (4.110%) CSS
2 6 (4.110%) HTML
3 5 (3.425%) jQuery
3 5 (3.425%) Ajax
4 3 (2.055%) ASP
4 3 (2.055%) Web Services
4 3 (2.055%) XML
5 1 (0.685%) Application Packaging
5 1 (0.685%) WSE
5 1 (0.685%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (0.685%) REST
5 1 (0.685%) DHTML
5 1 (0.685%) SOAP
5 1 (0.685%) OLE
5 1 (0.685%) Middleware
5 1 (0.685%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.685%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (11.64%) IIS
2 16 (10.96%) MS Exchange
3 8 (5.479%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.479%) Site Server
3 8 (5.479%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (4.795%) Lotus Notes
5 4 (2.740%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (2.740%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.370%) CICS
6 2 (1.370%) Apache
6 2 (1.370%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.370%) SAS
6 2 (1.370%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.685%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.685%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (15.75%) MS Office
2 22 (15.07%) MS Excel
3 7 (4.795%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (4.110%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.370%) MS Project
6 1 (0.685%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (1.370%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.685%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.589%) DNS
2 13 (8.904%) SAN
3 6 (4.110%) DHCP
4 4 (2.740%) VoIP
5 2 (1.370%) Internet
5 2 (1.370%) LAN
5 2 (1.370%) SMS
5 2 (1.370%) WAN
5 2 (1.370%) SMTP
5 2 (1.370%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.370%) SNA
6 1 (0.685%) Network Security
6 1 (0.685%) NAS
6 1 (0.685%) VSAT
6 1 (0.685%) VPN
6 1 (0.685%) HTTP
6 1 (0.685%) Wireless
6 1 (0.685%) Firewall
6 1 (0.685%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.849%) RDBMS
3 7 (4.795%) DB2
3 7 (4.795%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.110%) MySQL
5 5 (3.425%) GIS
6 2 (1.370%) DataStage
6 2 (1.370%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.685%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.685%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.685%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.685%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (2.055%) MSI
2 1 (0.685%) ClearCase
General
1 34 (23.29%) Finance
2 12 (8.219%) Telecoms
3 6 (4.110%) Banking
3 6 (4.110%) Retail
4 5 (3.425%) Advertising
4 5 (3.425%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.740%) Publishing
6 1 (0.685%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.685%) Local Government
6 1 (0.685%) Billing
Job Titles
1 38 (26.03%) Analyst
2 31 (21.23%) Support Analyst
3 25 (17.12%) Applications Support
4 19 (13.01%) Support Engineer
5 17 (11.64%) Applications Support Analyst
6 11 (7.534%) Team Leader
6 11 (7.534%) Consultant
7 10 (6.849%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (6.164%) Service Manager
9 8 (5.479%) IT Consultant
10 7 (4.795%) Developer
11 6 (4.110%) Desktop Engineer
11 6 (4.110%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 6 (4.110%) Service Desk Manager
11 6 (4.110%) Administrator
11 6 (4.110%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (4.110%) Desktop Support
11 6 (4.110%) Service Desk Team Leader
12 5 (3.425%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.425%) Deskside Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.110%) Blackberry
2 5 (3.425%) Mainframe
2 5 (3.425%) Clustering
3 3 (2.055%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.055%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (2.055%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.055%) Tandem
4 2 (1.370%) Symmetrix
4 2 (1.370%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (0.685%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.685%) FMCG
5 1 (0.685%) Social Media
5 1 (0.685%) Open Source
5 1 (0.685%) iPad
5 1 (0.685%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.685%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.685%) Firmware
5 1 (0.685%) Informatics
5 1 (0.685%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.685%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 59 (40.41%) Windows
2 37 (25.34%) Windows Server 2008
3 36 (24.66%) Windows Server 2003
4 35 (23.97%) UNIX
5 17 (11.64%) Linux
6 14 (9.589%) Windows XP
7 13 (8.904%) Windows 7
8 4 (2.740%) Windows Vista
9 3 (2.055%) Solaris
9 3 (2.055%) MVS
10 2 (1.370%) zOS
11 1 (0.685%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.685%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.685%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.41%) ITIL
2 42 (28.77%) Service Delivery
3 19 (13.01%) Incident Management
4 12 (8.219%) Time Management
5 10 (6.849%) Problem Management
6 9 (6.164%) Performance Management
6 9 (6.164%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (6.164%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (6.164%) ETL
7 8 (5.479%) Project Management
8 7 (4.795%) ITIL V2
8 7 (4.795%) Change Management
8 7 (4.795%) Asset Management
9 6 (4.110%) Business Analysis
9 6 (4.110%) ERP
10 5 (3.425%) ITIL V3
10 5 (3.425%) Change Control
10 5 (3.425%) Logistics
11 4 (2.740%) Business Continuity
11 4 (2.740%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.88%) SQL
2 13 (8.904%) Java
3 9 (6.164%) C#
3 9 (6.164%) Perl
4 8 (5.479%) PHP
5 7 (4.795%) VB
6 6 (4.110%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.055%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.370%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.370%) REXX
8 2 (1.370%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.685%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.685%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.685%) Delphi
9 1 (0.685%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Degree
2 13 (8.904%) SC Cleared
2 13 (8.904%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.164%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.479%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (3.425%) MCSA
6 4 (2.740%) MCSE
7 3 (2.055%) MCTS
8 2 (1.370%) MCITP
9 1 (0.685%) CCNP
9 1 (0.685%) CCNA
9 1 (0.685%) ISEB
9 1 (0.685%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.685%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.685%) CCVP
9 1 (0.685%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.685%) QA
1 1 (0.685%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (20.55%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.795%) XenApp
4 6 (4.110%) vSphere
5 5 (3.425%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.055%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (1.370%) RACF
8 1 (0.685%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (0.685%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.685%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.685%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.685%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.685%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.685%) Samba
Systems Management
1 24 (16.44%) SCCM
2 13 (8.904%) WSUS
3 8 (5.479%) SCOM
4 5 (3.425%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (2.055%) DameWare
6 2 (1.370%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.370%) MOM
7 1 (0.685%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.685%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (0.685%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.685%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.685%) Legato
7 1 (0.685%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 44 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.49%) Oracle
3 26 (17.81%) VMware
4 19 (13.01%) Citrix
5 15 (10.27%) CommVault
6 8 (5.479%) HP
6 8 (5.479%) Fujitsu
7 7 (4.795%) Lotus
7 7 (4.795%) Cisco
8 6 (4.110%) Netezza
8 6 (4.110%) Ab Initio
8 6 (4.110%) EMC
8 6 (4.110%) Informatica
8 6 (4.110%) Apple
8 6 (4.110%) Postini
9 5 (3.425%) Sybase
10 3 (2.055%) NetApp
10 3 (2.055%) IBM
10 3 (2.055%) Juniper
10 3 (2.055%) Brocade
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