Service Level Agreement (SLA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SLA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SLA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 153 204
Rank change year-on-year +7 +51 -5
Permanent jobs citing SLA 2,005 2,400 3,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 2.37% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.74% 12.54% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 1,557 2,118
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £25,250 £30,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,313 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% -10.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,602 19,143 26,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.89% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 8,888 13,070
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the UK

SLA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SLA.

Salary trend for SLA in the UK

SLA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SLA in the UK

SLA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 1,789 £32,500 -18.75% 453
UK excluding London -12 1,560 £30,000 -20.00% 363
South East +2 474 £30,500 -19.21% 95
Work from Home -60 409 £48,500 +7.78% 132
London +17 404 £45,000 -5.26% 107
North of England -9 342 £32,500 -10.96% 91
Midlands -6 261 £28,119 -18.50% 67
West Midlands -4 182 £28,119 -25.02% 47
South West 0 165 £37,500 +7.14% 38
North West -11 162 £28,500 -36.67% 53
East of England -31 140 £29,000 -42.00% 45
Yorkshire +15 139 £35,000 +8.70% 27
Scotland -29 109 £25,406 -36.49% 20
East Midlands -18 79 £28,500 -10.94% 20
Wales +21 69 £26,000 -18.75% 12
North East -6 41 £35,000 -2.78% 11
Northern Ireland +18 6 £28,000 -37.78% 5

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 205 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 71 (3.54%) WebLogic
4 44 (2.19%) Oracle Service Bus
5 37 (1.85%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.50%) CMS
6 10 (0.50%) IIS
7 7 (0.35%) Confluence
8 5 (0.25%) JBoss
9 3 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 3 (0.15%) Moodle
9 3 (0.15%) WordPress
10 2 (0.100%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.100%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.100%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.050%) Apache
11 1 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.050%) WebSphere
Applications
1 357 (17.81%) Microsoft Office
2 122 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.49%) MS Visio
4 28 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.100%) Trello
9 1 (0.050%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 48 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 44 (2.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 13 (0.65%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.65%) iTrent
6 5 (0.25%) Adaptiv
6 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.20%) Endur
7 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.100%) assyst
9 2 (0.100%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.050%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.050%) HFM
10 1 (0.050%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 523 (26.08%) Microsoft 365
2 299 (14.91%) Azure
3 160 (7.98%) SaaS
4 140 (6.98%) AWS
5 61 (3.04%) Entra ID
6 34 (1.70%) Power Platform
7 31 (1.55%) OneDrive
8 30 (1.50%) Mimecast
9 25 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.25%) Power Automate
10 22 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.05%) GCP
12 20 (1.00%) Snowflake
13 18 (0.90%) IaaS
14 16 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (0.65%) Google Workspace
16 12 (0.60%) PaaS
17 9 (0.45%) PowerApps
18 8 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 6 (0.30%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (8.53%) Firewall
2 122 (6.08%) DNS
3 118 (5.89%) VPN
4 111 (5.54%) DHCP
5 107 (5.34%) LAN
6 97 (4.84%) WAN
7 94 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 89 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (3.04%) SAN
10 56 (2.79%) Internet
10 56 (2.79%) Wireless
11 39 (1.95%) VoIP
12 25 (1.25%) MPLS
13 24 (1.20%) VLAN
14 23 (1.15%) WLAN
15 22 (1.10%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.95%) Broadband
16 19 (0.95%) DSL
16 19 (0.95%) OSPF
17 18 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 50 (2.49%) Oracle Database
3 44 (2.19%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (2.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (2.19%) VLDB
4 41 (2.04%) Tableau
5 34 (1.70%) Big Data
6 33 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (1.25%) DB2
9 20 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 20 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.00%) MySQL
10 16 (0.80%) Apache Hive
10 16 (0.80%) Hadoop
10 16 (0.80%) Impala
11 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 13 (0.65%) Power BI
12 10 (0.50%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 59 (2.94%) JIRA
2 5 (0.25%) Git
2 5 (0.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 5 (0.25%) SonarQube
2 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.20%) Postman
4 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.15%) Subversion
5 1 (0.050%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.050%) git-flow
5 1 (0.050%) GitLab
5 1 (0.050%) MSI
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.050%) Sourcetree
5 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 951 (47.43%) Social Skills
2 468 (23.34%) Finance
3 329 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (12.07%) Law
5 223 (11.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 128 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
7 102 (5.09%) Retail
8 100 (4.99%) Banking
9 95 (4.74%) Billing
10 88 (4.39%) Telecoms
11 74 (3.69%) Legal
12 64 (3.19%) Marketing
13 55 (2.74%) Public Sector
14 41 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 30 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.45%) Back Office
19 27 (1.35%) Police
20 26 (1.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 373 (18.60%) Analyst
2 245 (12.22%) Senior
3 223 (11.12%) Service Manager
4 217 (10.82%) Support Engineer
5 193 (9.63%) IT Support
6 192 (9.58%) Support Analyst
7 150 (7.48%) Service Delivery Manager
8 148 (7.38%) Delivery Manager
9 132 (6.58%) Lead
10 131 (6.53%) Service Analyst
11 129 (6.43%) Applications Support
12 128 (6.38%) Service Desk Analyst
13 108 (5.39%) IT Engineer
14 103 (5.14%) Senior Manager
15 100 (4.99%) Senior Service Manager
16 95 (4.74%) Senior Delivery Manager
16 95 (4.74%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
17 92 (4.59%) Applications Support Analyst
18 90 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 84 (4.19%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.69%) Spring
2 31 (1.55%) AngularJS
3 30 (1.50%) React
4 28 (1.40%) RESTful
5 27 (1.35%) J2EE
5 27 (1.35%) Java EE
6 26 (1.30%) HTML
6 26 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 24 (1.20%) CSS
8 22 (1.10%) .NET
9 18 (0.90%) Kafka
10 11 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.35%) ADSI
11 7 (0.35%) EDI
11 7 (0.35%) LDAP
12 6 (0.30%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) ARM Templates
12 6 (0.30%) OLE
12 6 (0.30%) REST
12 6 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 208 (10.37%) Self-Motivation
2 134 (6.68%) Driving Licence
3 112 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 100 (4.99%) Video Conferencing
5 90 (4.49%) Digital Signage
6 89 (4.44%) Video\Live Streaming
7 70 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 64 (3.19%) Data Centre
9 62 (3.09%) Cloud Native
10 45 (2.24%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.85%) Product Ownership
12 32 (1.60%) EPoS
13 26 (1.30%) Clustering
14 24 (1.20%) Replication
15 22 (1.10%) Life Science
16 19 (0.95%) BYOD
16 19 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 18 (0.90%) IoT
18 10 (0.50%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 619 (30.87%) Windows
2 262 (13.07%) Windows Server
3 177 (8.83%) Windows 10
4 140 (6.98%) Linux
5 104 (5.19%) Unix
6 54 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 51 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 49 (2.44%) Apple iOS
9 48 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 44 (2.19%) Solaris
11 38 (1.90%) Android
12 21 (1.05%) AIX
13 19 (0.95%) Mac OS
14 17 (0.85%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.55%) Windows 8
16 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.40%) CentOS
17 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
18 4 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (34.26%) Customer Service
2 543 (27.08%) ITIL
3 496 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
4 336 (16.76%) Service Delivery
5 261 (13.02%) Service Management
6 244 (12.17%) Incident Management
7 183 (9.13%) Mentoring
8 180 (8.98%) ITSM
9 164 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 155 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 146 (7.28%) Asset Management
12 138 (6.88%) Agile
13 133 (6.63%) Contract Negotiation
14 131 (6.53%) Decision-Making
15 130 (6.48%) Time Management
16 123 (6.13%) Change Management
17 118 (5.89%) Performance Management
18 117 (5.84%) Presales
19 113 (5.64%) Problem Management
20 110 (5.49%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 211 (10.52%) SQL
2 91 (4.54%) Java
3 71 (3.54%) Python
4 70 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 64 (3.19%) PL/SQL
6 39 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.70%) Scala
8 27 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 22 (1.10%) Bash
9 22 (1.10%) C#
10 20 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.45%) ActionScript
11 9 (0.45%) VB
12 6 (0.30%) Perl
13 5 (0.25%) Bicep
13 5 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.100%) PHP
15 1 (0.050%) C
15 1 (0.050%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.050%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 238 (11.87%) Security Cleared
2 237 (11.82%) Degree
3 135 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 83 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 56 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 55 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 47 (2.34%) CCNA
8 34 (1.70%) CCNP
9 32 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.60%) MCP
10 29 (1.45%) A+ Certification
11 28 (1.40%) DBS Check
12 25 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 18 (0.90%) HND
15 16 (0.80%) MCSE
15 16 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.39%) GDPR
2 44 (2.19%) PCI DSS
3 42 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (1.30%) QA
5 15 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.75%) PMO
6 14 (0.70%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.100%) COBIT
9 2 (0.100%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.100%) GRC
9 2 (0.100%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.100%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.050%) COSHH
10 1 (0.050%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.050%) FISMA
10 1 (0.050%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.050%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 483 (24.09%) Active Directory
2 127 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (3.74%) Hyper-V
4 44 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
5 39 (1.95%) KVM
6 29 (1.45%) Firmware
7 23 (1.15%) vSphere
8 16 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.70%) XenApp
10 9 (0.45%) OpenSSH
11 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
12 5 (0.25%) Docker
12 5 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.050%) Lustre
14 1 (0.050%) NFS
14 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 103 (5.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (3.59%) SCCM
3 45 (2.24%) Oracle RMAN
4 44 (2.19%) Data Guard
5 29 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (1.40%) Kubernetes
7 27 (1.35%) OpenSSO
8 18 (0.90%) WSUS
9 17 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.70%) NetBackup
11 13 (0.65%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.60%) Backup Exec
13 11 (0.55%) Terraform
14 10 (0.50%) SCOM
15 9 (0.45%) IBM BigFix
15 9 (0.45%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.30%) Nessus
16 6 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
17 5 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 827 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 201 (10.02%) VMware
3 188 (9.38%) Dell
4 176 (8.78%) ServiceNow
5 132 (6.58%) Oracle
6 122 (6.08%) Cisco
7 90 (4.49%) SAP
8 83 (4.14%) Citrix
9 79 (3.94%) Remedy
10 71 (3.54%) HP
11 55 (2.74%) Apple
12 54 (2.69%) Salesforce
13 53 (2.64%) Sun
14 49 (2.44%) IBM
15 37 (1.85%) Meraki
15 37 (1.85%) Veeam
16 34 (1.70%) Sophos
17 32 (1.60%) NetApp
18 24 (1.20%) Google
18 24 (1.20%) SolarWinds