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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -29
Contract jobs citing SLA 7 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.97% 1.72% 1.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.56% 13.76% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £155 £164
25th Percentile - £229 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £310 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% +23.71%
75th Percentile - £400 £350
90th Percentile - £445 £475
England median daily rate £350 £350 £300
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £21.67 - -
25th Percentile £22.93 £12.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -1.84% +1.70%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £14.80 £18.36
% change year-on-year +49.59% -19.40% +10.12%

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 126 109 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.55% 12.53% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 71 81
10th Percentile £171 £200 £263
25th Percentile £350 £266 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £463 £595 £550
90th Percentile £500 £623 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 5
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.35 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.75 £31.76
Median hourly rate £20.83 £21.73 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -66.57% +230.54%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £27.49 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.66% -42.81% +63.46%

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

SLA
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

SLA
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

SLA
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 3 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
Derbyshire +4 3 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 3 - - 4
Nottinghamshire 0 1 - - 9
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Broadband
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Local Government
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Rocky
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Break/Fix
1 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) ITSM
1 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) SIEM
1 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
2 1 (14.29%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (14.29%) Proactive Management
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco