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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank 66 44 56
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +12
Permanent jobs citing SLA 22 47 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 2.097% 4.932% 3.233%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.68% 50.54% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 22
Average salary £32,500 £30,500 £29,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.55% +4.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,600 £22,750 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £35,000 £52,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
97 93 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 9.247% 9.759% 9.699%
Number of salaries quoted 81 58 78
Average salary £45,000 £33,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36% -12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,100 £25,400 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Wales

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SLA across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cardiff -18 13 £36,250 +18.85%
Bridgend - 3 £32,500 -
Caerphilly -14 1 £55,000 -
SLA
Wales

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 20 (39.22%) ITIL
2 14 (27.45%) Cisco
3 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
4 11 (21.57%) Change Management
4 11 (21.57%) Telecoms
5 10 (19.61%) Finance
5 10 (19.61%) Firewall
5 10 (19.61%) SQL
6 9 (17.65%) MS Excel
6 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 9 (17.65%) Windows
6 9 (17.65%) WAN
6 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
6 9 (17.65%) Retail
6 9 (17.65%) Incident Management
6 9 (17.65%) Fujitsu
7 8 (15.69%) ITIL V3
7 8 (15.69%) VPN
7 8 (15.69%) MS Office
8 7 (13.73%) LAN
8 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (13.73%) VMware
8 7 (13.73%) Service Delivery
8 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (11.76%) Cisco PIX
9 6 (11.76%) CheckPoint
9 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
9 6 (11.76%) UNIX
10 5 (9.804%) MS Access

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 (9.804%) HTML
1 5 (9.804%) .NET
2 1 (1.961%) CGI
2 1 (1.961%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.882%) CMS
2 2 (3.922%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 8 (15.69%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) Firewall
2 9 (17.65%) WAN
3 8 (15.69%) VPN
4 7 (13.73%) LAN
4 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (11.76%) Cisco PIX
6 5 (9.804%) Internet
6 5 (9.804%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.843%) BGP
8 3 (5.882%) EIGRP
8 3 (5.882%) OSPF
8 3 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (5.882%) IPsec
9 2 (3.922%) HSRP
9 2 (3.922%) VLAN
9 2 (3.922%) IGRP
9 2 (3.922%) PPTP
9 2 (3.922%) ADSL
9 2 (3.922%) ISDN
10 1 (1.961%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.804%) MS Access
2 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 7
2 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (21.57%) Telecoms
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Retail
4 5 (9.804%) Advertising
5 4 (7.843%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Analyst
2 9 (17.65%) Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Service Analyst
2 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Customer Solutions Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Network Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Network Support Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Service Manager
4 6 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Network Support
5 5 (9.804%) Applications Support
5 5 (9.804%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (7.843%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) ITIL Manager
7 3 (5.882%) Change Manager
7 3 (5.882%) Release Manager
7 3 (5.882%) ITIL Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.882%) AS400
3 2 (3.922%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) UNIX
3 3 (5.882%) Linux
3 3 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.961%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.961%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) ITIL
2 11 (21.57%) Change Management
3 9 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 8 (15.69%) ITIL V3
5 7 (13.73%) Service Delivery
6 5 (9.804%) Web Design
6 5 (9.804%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (7.843%) Release Management
7 4 (7.843%) Service Management
8 3 (5.882%) Problem Management
8 3 (5.882%) Load Balancing
8 3 (5.882%) Network Management
9 2 (3.922%) Capacity Management
9 2 (3.922%) Network Design
10 1 (1.961%) Project Management
10 1 (1.961%) Asset Management
10 1 (1.961%) Performance Management
10 1 (1.961%) Data Security
10 1 (1.961%) Disaster Recovery
10 1 (1.961%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 5 (9.804%) C#
2 5 (9.804%) T-SQL
2 5 (9.804%) VB
2 5 (9.804%) VB.NET
2 5 (9.804%) VBA
3 3 (5.882%) RPG
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.804%) CCNA
4 4 (7.843%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.843%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (7.843%) MCP
4 4 (7.843%) MCSE
5 3 (5.882%) CCNP
6 1 (1.961%) CCIP
6 1 (1.961%) CCIE
6 1 (1.961%) Degree
6 1 (1.961%) CCENT
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.804%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.961%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.961%) XenApp
3 1 (1.961%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (1.961%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (1.961%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (1.961%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (1.961%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Cisco
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Fujitsu
3 7 (13.73%) VMware
4 6 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 4 (7.843%) Remedy
6 3 (5.882%) Progress
6 3 (5.882%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.922%) Nokia
8 1 (1.961%) Sun
8 1 (1.961%) IBM
8 1 (1.961%) Juniper
8 1 (1.961%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.961%) NetApp
8 1 (1.961%) HP
8 1 (1.961%) EMC
8 1 (1.961%) Citrix
8 1 (1.961%) Brocade
8 1 (1.961%) SolarWinds
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The successful candidate will be part of a large service desk team working to ITIL standards. This is a fast paced environment working to set SLA's working...
Atos
Posted: 23 April 2013
Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
I am currently recruiting a Network Administrator for an interesting organisation based in Caerphilly. As the Network Administrator you will work closely with the IT Manager and your...
CPS Group UK
Salary: £25000 - £33000 per annum + 23 days annual leave
Posted: 16 May 2013