SLA Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 83 89
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -27
Contract jobs citing SLA 21 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.08% 1.42% 1.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.19% 7.52% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £200 £430 £204
25th Percentile £220 £488 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £288
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +86.96% +11.65%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £350
90th Percentile £490 £550 £379
South East median daily rate £463 £275 £238
% change year-on-year +68.18% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £17.53 - -
25th Percentile £17.56 - -
Median hourly rate £17.75 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% - -
75th Percentile £21.31 - -
90th Percentile £23.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £16.19
% change year-on-year -1.96% +16.55% +1.03%

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 339 226 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.50% 18.88% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 122 92
10th Percentile £375 £377 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £686
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 7
10th Percentile £24.96 £18.87 £43.91
25th Percentile £60.19 £36.19 £60.88
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -3.05% +111.43%
75th Percentile £84.00 £87.38 £68.84
90th Percentile £104.00 £89.50 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £24.91 £36.17
% change year-on-year +110.80% -31.14% -26.19%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SLA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SLA job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SLA

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 13 August 2026. 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 -29 9 £500 -6.98% 3
Wokingham -11 8 £363 -34.09%
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) ArcGIS
2 1 (4.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (4.76%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) 5G
1 6 (28.57%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (28.57%) LTE
1 6 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (28.57%) VoLTE
1 6 (28.57%) VoWiFi
1 6 (28.57%) Wireshark
2 3 (14.29%) Internet
3 2 (9.52%) ADSL
3 2 (9.52%) Ethernet
3 2 (9.52%) MPLS
3 2 (9.52%) PSTN
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) DWDM
4 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
4 1 (4.76%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) GIS
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Coordinator
2 2 (9.52%) Administrator
2 2 (9.52%) Change Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Logistics Coordinator
2 2 (9.52%) Operations Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) DBA
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (4.76%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (4.76%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Administrator
3 1 (4.76%) SQL DBA
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Service Delivery
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) ITSM
2 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
4 5 (23.81%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) Break/Fix
6 3 (14.29%) Data Entry
6 3 (14.29%) Logistics
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
7 2 (9.52%) Change Control
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) CRM
7 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
7 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery Management
7 2 (9.52%) Service Management
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 2 (9.52%) Supplier Relationship Management
7 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) BC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCA
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) SCOM
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) BT
3 6 (28.57%) Ericsson
3 6 (28.57%) Huawei
3 6 (28.57%) Nokia
4 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 2 (9.52%) Openreach
5 2 (9.52%) Remedy
6 1 (4.76%) Autodesk
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) VMware