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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Rank - 16 26
Permanent jobs citing SLA 0 8 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian - 6.400% 6.122%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 80.00% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 10
Average salary - £41,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -24.54%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
19 10 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 16.81% 8.000% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 36
Average salary £33,000 £34,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -11.53%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
SLA
Scotland

SLA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian SLA Salary Trend

SLA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 6 (60.00%) SQL
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (60.00%) ETL
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Informatica
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Ab Initio
1 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
1 6 (60.00%) Netezza
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (50.00%) DB2
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) Brocade
3 3 (30.00%) NetApp
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Symmetrix DMX
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Symmetrix
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (20.00%) DataStage
4 2 (20.00%) Linux

SLA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) DB2
3 2 (20.00%) DataStage
General
1 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Symmetrix
1 2 (20.00%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ETL
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) Informatica
1 6 (60.00%) Ab Initio
1 6 (60.00%) Netezza
2 3 (30.00%) Brocade
2 3 (30.00%) NetApp
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) EMC