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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 57 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing SLA 12 68 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 3.43% 2.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.77% 19.60% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 12
10th Percentile £239 £148 £157
25th Percentile £362 £193 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £285 £425
Median % change year-on-year +54.39% -32.94% -12.82%
75th Percentile £481 £310 £473
90th Percentile £538 £350 £475
South East median daily rate £250 £285 £235
% change year-on-year -12.28% +21.28% -18.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £17.15
25th Percentile £61.87 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £20.00
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - £20.30
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £18.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +37.00% -2.70% +12.12%

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 208 347 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.73% 17.49% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 168 128
10th Percentile £313 £245 £339
25th Percentile £450 £323 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £602
90th Percentile £684 £600 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £43.00 £20.80 £18.50
25th Percentile £58.94 £24.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%
75th Percentile £71.09 £70.18 £34.50
90th Percentile £89.00 £74.57 £70.73
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +21 1 - - 27
Bracknell -12 1 £450 - 1
Wokingham - 1 - -
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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DMS-100
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) ISUP
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) NGN
1 1 (8.33%) VoIP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (16.67%) DBA
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Voice Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) EDI
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Ticket Management
5 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
5 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Server Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) Epicor
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) JD Edwards
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP