SLA Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SLA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 61 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing SLA 30 29 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.12% 2.12% 3.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.79% 23.97% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 30
10th Percentile - - £240
25th Percentile - £200 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £250 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -37.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £600 £497 £450
90th Percentile £613 £556 £513
South East median daily rate £350 £250 £275
% change year-on-year +40.14% -9.18% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.63 - -
Median hourly rate £14.75 - £15.21
75th Percentile £14.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £16.98 £16.19 £16.36
% change year-on-year +4.88% -1.01% -0.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 190 121 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.73% 8.83% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 68 95
10th Percentile £200 £234 £271
25th Percentile £402 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £665 £578
90th Percentile £650 £700 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 20
10th Percentile £23.70 £22.88 £15.21
25th Percentile £37.31 £26.25 £15.24
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +31.31% +200.00%
75th Percentile £64.83 £70.00 £58.88
90th Percentile £67.72 - £60.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -64.06% +5.00% +198.51%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Hampshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Hampshire

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Portsmouth - 17 £200 -
Basingstoke +2 9 £600 +20.00% 4
Southampton -7 1 - - 1
Winchester - 1 £300 -
Havant - 1 - - 1
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) LAN
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (10.00%) Junos
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Communications Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Network Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Coordinator
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Trainee Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Trainee Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.33%) Co-Creation
6 1 (3.33%) Economics
6 1 (3.33%) Feasibility Study
6 1 (3.33%) Information Security
6 1 (3.33%) Lean Six Sigma
6 1 (3.33%) Six Sigma
6 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.33%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
1 3 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CCNP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Google
2 9 (30.00%) Cisco
2 9 (30.00%) Juniper
3 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 3 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft