SLA Contracts in the East Midlands

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 45 54 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing SLA 11 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.05% 1.55% 1.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.36% 14.46% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile £196 £138 £153
25th Percentile £231 £188 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £270 £190
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +42.11% -24.00%
75th Percentile £388 £398 £338
90th Percentile £455 £474 £475
England median daily rate £250 £330 £298
% change year-on-year -24.24% +10.92% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
Median hourly rate £12.92 £19.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.19% -1.84% +49.48%
England median hourly rate £22.27 £14.60 £18.50
% change year-on-year +52.53% -21.08% +12.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 89 83 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.60% 10.74% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 81
10th Percentile £168 £200 £231
25th Percentile £300 £255 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £434 £415
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +4.58% +3.75%
75th Percentile £476 £603 £538
90th Percentile £524 £623 £634
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £14.50 £9.95 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.88 £12.75 £32.50
Median hourly rate £20.60 £23.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -52.51% +192.31%
75th Percentile £25.19 £26.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £29.13 £34.48 £63.00
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SLA in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Derbyshire +9 6 £175 -65.00% 5
Nottinghamshire +6 2 £350 - 5
Leicestershire +6 1 £250 -7.41% 5
Lincolnshire +3 1 £500 +354.55% 3
Northamptonshire - 1 - - 4
SLA
England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
2 1 (9.09%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
3 5 (45.45%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Electronics
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) CentOS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Rocky
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Service Delivery
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Conflict Resolution
3 5 (45.45%) Contract Negotiation
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Proactive Management
3 5 (45.45%) Risk Management
3 5 (45.45%) Supplier Management
3 5 (45.45%) Supplier Relationship Management
4 4 (36.36%) Contract Management
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) SAP