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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 40 40 54
Rank change year-on-year
0 +14
Permanent jobs citing SLA 17 23 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 3.244% 3.746% 1.391%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.25% 28.75% 19.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 4
Average salary £100,000 £34,500 £26,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+189.85% +28.97%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £36,000
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
80 80 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 15.27% 13.03% 7.130%
Number of salaries quoted 71 63 36
Average salary £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,250
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
South Yorkshire

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield SLA Salary Histogram

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 10 (32.26%) Service Delivery
2 9 (29.03%) Service Management
2 9 (29.03%) Linux
3 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 7 (22.58%) UNIX
4 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
5 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (16.13%) OCP
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (16.13%) SAN
5 5 (16.13%) Windows
5 5 (16.13%) Solaris
5 5 (16.13%) C
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle
5 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (16.13%) Data Guard
6 4 (12.90%) Release Management
6 4 (12.90%) ITSM
7 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (9.677%) Supplier Management
7 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (9.677%) Agile Software Development

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 (6.452%) .NET
1 2 (6.452%) ASP
2 1 (3.226%) REST
2 1 (3.226%) WSDL
2 1 (3.226%) SOAP
2 1 (3.226%) XML
2 1 (3.226%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) SAN
2 3 (9.677%) Network Security
2 3 (9.677%) MPLS
2 3 (9.677%) OSPF
2 3 (9.677%) BGP
3 2 (6.452%) Intranet
3 2 (6.452%) LAN
3 2 (6.452%) WAN
4 1 (3.226%) VPN
4 1 (3.226%) DNS
4 1 (3.226%) L2TP
4 1 (3.226%) VRRP
4 1 (3.226%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (9.677%) DTS
3 3 (9.677%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) PHPUnit
1 1 (3.226%) JUnit
General
1 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) DBA
2 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (16.13%) UNIX Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) SQL DBA
4 4 (12.90%) Head of Service Delivery
5 3 (9.677%) Senior SQL DBA
5 3 (9.677%) Senior DBA
5 3 (9.677%) Head of Service Management
6 2 (6.452%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) IT Support
6 2 (6.452%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Network Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Head of IT
6 2 (6.452%) Services Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Service Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.452%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) UNIX
3 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Solaris
4 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.452%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.452%) Debian
5 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Service Delivery
2 9 (29.03%) Service Management
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL
4 4 (12.90%) Release Management
4 4 (12.90%) ITSM
5 3 (9.677%) Supplier Management
5 3 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (9.677%) ETL
5 3 (9.677%) Quality Management
6 2 (6.452%) Network Design
6 2 (6.452%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.226%) MVC
7 1 (3.226%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.226%) TDD
7 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (3.226%) BDD
7 1 (3.226%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.226%) Time Management
7 1 (3.226%) QMS
7 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) C
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
1 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
2 2 (6.452%) Perl
2 2 (6.452%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.452%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.226%) PHP
3 1 (3.226%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) OCP
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.677%) CCNA
3 2 (6.452%) CCNP
4 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.226%) MCSE
4 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.226%) MCP
4 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (9.677%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.452%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 3 (9.677%) Cisco
3 2 (6.452%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.452%) Juniper
3 2 (6.452%) VMware