SLA Contracts in the East of England

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SLA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SLA over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing SLA 23 74 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.19% 3.78% 5.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.47% 26.33% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 52 102
10th Percentile £219 £180 £120
25th Percentile £250 £196 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +47.73%
75th Percentile £345 £322 £438
90th Percentile £358 £506 £475
England median daily rate £330 £298 £325
% change year-on-year +10.92% -8.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 16
10th Percentile - £12.00 £10.56
25th Percentile £14.16 £12.75 £11.50
Median hourly rate £14.41 £13.58 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% +1.53% +5.65%
75th Percentile £15.16 £14.78 £14.67
90th Percentile £17.90 £17.50 £20.75
England median hourly rate £14.70 £18.36 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +11.29% +20.02%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

SLA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 159 281 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.20% 14.34% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 171 263
10th Percentile £240 £185 £163
25th Percentile £339 £273 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £440 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +0.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 28
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.30 £11.24
25th Percentile £14.96 £13.29 £12.78
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -14.63% +36.67%
75th Percentile £25.00 £49.34 £41.13
90th Percentile £67.13 £70.25 £67.78
England median hourly rate £23.65 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.35% +54.55% +30.95%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -11 12 £301 +9.55% 20
Cambridgeshire -28 6 £250 -15.97% 7
Bedfordshire 0 4 - - 2
Essex +5 1 £250 - 5
SLA
England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.04%) IIS
3 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (4.35%) PTC Creo
4 1 (4.35%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 4 (17.39%) Marketing
3 4 (17.39%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
6 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.35%) Aviation
6 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Customer Service Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Support
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Technician
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Web Services
2 2 (8.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) BYOD
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Android
3 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
2 7 (30.43%) Service Delivery
3 4 (17.39%) ITIL
3 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
4 3 (13.04%) Change Management
4 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
4 3 (13.04%) Release Management
4 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
4 3 (13.04%) Time Management
5 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.70%) Business Case
5 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.70%) CAFM
5 2 (8.70%) Facilities Management
5 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Management
5 2 (8.70%) Statistics
5 2 (8.70%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) CCNA
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) MCSA
3 4 (17.39%) MCSE
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) CCSA
5 1 (4.35%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Blue Coat
2 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Juniper
2 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Twitter
2 1 (4.35%) VMware