SLA Contracts in Edinburgh

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 97 113
Rank change year-on-year +43 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing SLA 18 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.21% 1.02% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.38% 4.11% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £214 £131 £153
25th Percentile £234 £141 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 £163 £190
Median % change year-on-year +73.54% -14.47% -52.50%
75th Percentile £340 £188 £380
90th Percentile - £194 £475
Scotland median daily rate £282 £170 £226
% change year-on-year +65.88% -24.86% -43.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £18.05 - £30.55
25th Percentile £18.14 - £32.13
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £36.50
75th Percentile - - £39.13
90th Percentile - - £39.65
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £13.83 £16.25
% change year-on-year +25.49% -14.89% +25.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 192 316 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.53% 24.86% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 276 314
10th Percentile £213 £213 £230
25th Percentile £309 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +9.49% +2.94%
75th Percentile £561 £546 £549
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £440 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -6.28% +10.47% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £17.42 - £32.65
25th Percentile £18.27 - £37.38
Median hourly rate £19.17 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £18.13 £37.43
% change year-on-year +0.80% -51.58% +31.33%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Edinburgh

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Support
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Management Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Solaris
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) ITSM
2 6 (33.33%) Process Management
2 6 (33.33%) Service Management
3 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Coaching
4 4 (22.22%) Compliance Management
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
5 2 (11.11%) Change Control
5 2 (11.11%) Contract Management
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) RHCE
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) KVM
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Apple