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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -36 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing SLA 22 77 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.15% 3.72% 5.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.66% 26.37% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 58 100
10th Percentile £201 £156 £122
25th Percentile £238 £185 £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £230 £275
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -16.36% +25.00%
75th Percentile £309 £328 £438
90th Percentile £386 £500 £475
England median daily rate £330 £294 £350
% change year-on-year +12.34% -16.07% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 12
10th Percentile - £12.00 £10.71
25th Percentile £14.16 £12.67 £11.50
Median hourly rate £14.29 £13.58 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +0.59% +5.43%
75th Percentile £14.94 £17.50 £15.38
90th Percentile £16.16 £17.68 £24.15
England median hourly rate £14.60 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.08% +12.12% +17.86%

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 161 292 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.42% 14.11% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 184 274
10th Percentile £258 £185 £141
25th Percentile £363 £256 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £427
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.51% +9.22%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £606 £732 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.88
25th Percentile £14.41 £13.29 £13.06
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.61 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -35.96% +83.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £51.45 £49.31
90th Percentile £27.45 £74.90 £68.33
England median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -50.59% +54.55% +31.26%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 9 £265 +6.00% 9
Cambridgeshire -29 8 £250 -15.97% 9
Bedfordshire -7 4 - - 2
Essex 0 1 £250 +56.25% 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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Administrator
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Service Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery 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%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.55%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) BYOD
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) Customer Service
3 7 (31.82%) Service Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) Time Management
5 4 (18.18%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
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%) Trend Analysis
7 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.55%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) CCNA
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) MCSA
2 4 (18.18%) MCSE
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.55%) CCNP
5 1 (4.55%) CCSA
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) 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