SLA Contracts in Berkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 64 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing SLA 18 48 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.55% 2.44% 2.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.57% 17.65% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 16
10th Percentile £400 £232 £171
25th Percentile £478 £265 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £285 £425
Median % change year-on-year +88.60% -32.94% +30.77%
75th Percentile £544 £350 £456
90th Percentile £550 £372 £474
South East median daily rate £250 £350 £275
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £20.10
South East median hourly rate £21.77 £16.19 £16.84
% change year-on-year +34.43% -3.86% +2.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 210 272 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.12% 13.82% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 119 136
10th Percentile £325 £270 £316
25th Percentile £450 £363 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -8.21% +8.95%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £678 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £35.46 £15.35
25th Percentile £44.84 £60.90 £18.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +209.52% -
75th Percentile £87.31 £70.18 £53.15
90th Percentile £89.00 £74.57 £73.59
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £27.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -10.33% -40.54% +131.25%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Reading +32 8 £538 +53.57% 11
Wokingham - 4 £550 - 2
Slough -6 2 - - 4
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (16.67%) Anypoint
2 2 (11.11%) Mule
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) SaaS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.56%) Twilio
3 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) SMS
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
General
1 8 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Incident Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) RAML
2 1 (5.56%) Express.js
2 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.56%) FHIR
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) LangChain
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 6 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 6 (33.33%) ERP
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) ITSM
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Batch Processing
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Conversational UI
6 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.56%) Data Collection
6 1 (5.56%) LLM
6 1 (5.56%) Observability
6 1 (5.56%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 1 (5.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) BMC
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy