Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 1 Jul 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 60 | 57 | 51 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -3 | -6 | +9 |
| Contract jobs citing SLA | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire | 1.42% | 0.81% | 0.62% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category | 9.33% | 9.52% | 4.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | £226 | £157 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £242 | £175 | £225 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £251 | £333 | £250 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -24.66% | +33.00% | +58.73% |
| 75th Percentile | £332 | £475 | £275 |
| 90th Percentile | £478 | - | - |
| Yorkshire median daily rate | £251 | £425 | £185 |
| % change year-on-year | -41.06% | +129.73% | -12.76% |
All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire
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 South Yorkshire.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills | 75 | 42 | 61 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire | 15.18% | 8.47% | 12.60% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 62 | 27 | 37 |
| 10th Percentile | £219 | £230 | £330 |
| 25th Percentile | £342 | £367 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £496 | £475 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.47% | -13.64% | +10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £552 | £605 | £606 |
| 90th Percentile | £609 | £641 | £700 |
| Yorkshire median daily rate | £475 | £500 | £510 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.00% | -1.96% | +15.91% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | £12.63 | £18.25 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £12.75 | £20.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -37.80% | -8.03% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £12.88 | £22.75 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Yorkshire median hourly rate | £22.14 | £11.88 | £21.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +86.36% | -43.43% | +12.30% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire
Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in South Yorkshire.
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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in South Yorkshire.
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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | +3 | 7 | £251 | -24.66% | 14 |
| SLA Yorkshire |
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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: