SLA Contracts in the East of England

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 67 90 49
Rank change year-on-year +23 -41 -7
Contract jobs citing SLA 15 22 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.60% 1.15% 3.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.34% 13.66% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 60
10th Percentile £195 £201 £157
25th Percentile - £238 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £265 £240
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +10.42% -12.73%
75th Percentile - £309 £350
90th Percentile £293 £386 £500
England median daily rate £250 £330 £298
% change year-on-year -24.24% +10.92% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 13
10th Percentile £17.40 - £12.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.16 £12.67
Median hourly rate £17.61 £14.29 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +23.28% +5.19% +0.59%
75th Percentile £17.71 £14.94 £17.50
90th Percentile £17.76 £16.16 £17.68
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 145 161 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.43% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £729
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 25
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.27
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.43 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.53
90th Percentile £86.70 £37.90 £69.50
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Suffolk - 7 £225 - 1
Hertfordshire +25 6 £450 +69.81% 11
Cambridgeshire +4 2 - - 16
SLA
England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Service Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL
2 7 (46.67%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Data Management
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Logistics
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Process Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) System Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (6.67%) Time Management
5 1 (6.67%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) GCFE
3 1 (6.67%) GCIH
3 1 (6.67%) GIAC
3 1 (6.67%) GREM
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler