SLA Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 88 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 -31 +19
Contract jobs citing SLA 30 18 64
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.93% 1.23% 3.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.90% 11.39% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 19
10th Percentile - £199 £126
25th Percentile £120 £217 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £240 £150
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +60.00% -38.78%
75th Percentile £500 £419 £306
90th Percentile - £534 £430
England median daily rate £375 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.48 - -
Median hourly rate £22.14 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £19.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year +15.43% +9.60% +4.95%

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 252 158 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.20% 10.76% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 100 175
10th Percentile £235 £263 £228
25th Percentile £318 £366 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £584 £575
90th Percentile £600 £645 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile - - £15.91
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.79
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - £34.00 £22.65
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -7.14% -11.62% +76.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Yorkshire

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SLA

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 30 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
North Yorkshire +12 11 £120 -46.67% 5
South Yorkshire -6 10 £500 +100.00% 5
West Yorkshire -11 6 - - 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Google Workspace
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (30.00%) Police
3 6 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Back Office
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Support Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Support Technician
4 5 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (16.67%) IT Support
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Manager
5 4 (13.33%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Field Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Coordinator
8 1 (3.33%) Administrator
8 1 (3.33%) DBA
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (3.33%) Resource Controller
8 1 (3.33%) Resource Coordinator
8 1 (3.33%) Service Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 9 (30.00%) Information Security
2 9 (30.00%) ITIL
2 9 (30.00%) Performance Measurement
2 9 (30.00%) Service Management
3 6 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (13.33%) Change Management
4 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (3.33%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.33%) Database Migration
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Escalation Management
5 1 (3.33%) Server Monitoring
5 1 (3.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) SmoothWall
2 1 (3.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle