SLA Contracts in the East of England

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing SLA 22 71 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.12% 3.65% 5.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.92% 25.63% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 50 100
10th Percentile £219 £178 £120
25th Percentile £250 £189 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +47.73%
75th Percentile £345 £328 £438
90th Percentile £358 £509 £465
England median daily rate £340 £298 £325
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.00 £10.55
25th Percentile £14.29 £12.50 £11.50
Median hourly rate £14.41 £13.58 £13.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% +2.49% +4.72%
75th Percentile £15.21 £13.87 £14.18
90th Percentile £18.77 £17.50 £21.24
England median hourly rate £14.60 £18.36 £16.50
% change year-on-year -20.49% +11.29% +21.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

SLA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 158 277 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.07% 14.23% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 169 258
10th Percentile £240 £185 £166
25th Percentile £332 £273 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.14% +7.00%
75th Percentile £516 £600 £562
90th Percentile £600 £717 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 28
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.10 £11.24
25th Percentile £15.19 £13.29 £12.78
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.14 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% -34.10% +73.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £44.31 £41.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.75 £67.78
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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 12 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 12 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 -6 12 £301 +9.55% 18
Cambridgeshire -34 5 £250 -14.53% 4
Bedfordshire +1 4 - - 3
Essex +4 1 £250 - 4
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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (4.55%) PTC Creo
4 1 (4.55%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Customer Service Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) IT Support
5 2 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) BYOD
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Android
3 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Service Delivery
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.64%) Release Management
5 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Security Patching
6 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.09%) Business Case
6 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.09%) CAFM
6 2 (9.09%) Facilities Management
6 2 (9.09%) Mathematics
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Management
6 2 (9.09%) Statistics
6 2 (9.09%) Time Management
6 2 (9.09%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) MCSA
3 4 (18.18%) MCSE
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.55%) CCNP
5 1 (4.55%) CCSA
5 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
2 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.55%) Twitter
2 1 (4.55%) VMware