SLA Contracts in Suffolk

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 14 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing SLA 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 9.46% - 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 70.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £185 - £149
25th Percentile - - £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £189
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.93%
75th Percentile - - £212
90th Percentile - - £221
East of England median daily rate £225 £265 £240
% change year-on-year -15.09% +10.42% -12.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 13.51% 4.92% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile £215 - £190
25th Percentile - £650 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £700 £642
Median % change year-on-year -67.86% +9.03% +64.30%
75th Percentile £422 £750 £681
90th Percentile £542 - £700
East of England median daily rate £550 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £79.17 -
East of England median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
% change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Suffolk

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Suffolk

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Suffolk

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Suffolk 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
Leiston - 6 £225 - 1
Ipswich - 1 £125 -
SLA
East of England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Service Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Driving Licence
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Okta
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler