SLA Contracts in Yorkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 73 62 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing SLA 19 38 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.87% 2.25% 3.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.18% 17.04% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 20
10th Percentile £243 £139 £128
25th Percentile £306 £145 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £294
Median % change year-on-year - +44.68% +72.79%
75th Percentile £506 £475 £472
90th Percentile £548 - £643
England median daily rate £250 £330 £298
% change year-on-year -24.24% +10.92% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile - - £11.82
25th Percentile - - £12.68
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%
75th Percentile - - £14.30
90th Percentile - - £16.35
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
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 156 223 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.34% 13.20% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 128 170
10th Percentile £210 £276 £300
25th Percentile £313 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile - - £12.59
25th Percentile - £10.86 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £28.86
Median % change year-on-year +102.56% -62.13% +28.74%
75th Percentile £25.14 £14.22 £49.08
90th Percentile £34.24 £27.41 £50.22
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Yorkshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Yorkshire

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Yorkshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Yorkshire

SLA
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
North Yorkshire - 8 £200 - 6
West Yorkshire -11 7 - - 14
South Yorkshire +7 4 £500 +5.26% 1
SLA
England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (31.58%) Police
3 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Support Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Support Technician
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
4 2 (10.53%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Break Fix Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Technician
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Project Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Supplier Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
1 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
3 6 (31.58%) Information Security
3 6 (31.58%) Performance Measurement
3 6 (31.58%) Service Management
4 5 (26.32%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.26%) Break/Fix
6 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL
6 1 (5.26%) Mathematics
6 1 (5.26%) Server Monitoring
6 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.26%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (5.26%) Supplier Relationship Management
6 1 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) Dell Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SmoothWall
2 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
2 2 (10.53%) HP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Snow
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Spiceworks