SLA Job Trends in Bedford

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring SLA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SLA 1 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.91% 3.51% 13.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 33.33% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - - £18,700
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £35,750 £33,750 -
90th Percentile - - £26,350
Bedfordshire median annual salary £30,750 £32,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +30.00% -54.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedford

SLA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 2.73% 10.53% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 16
10th Percentile £38,000 - £19,125
25th Percentile £45,125 £31,250 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +30.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £70,375 £56,875 -
90th Percentile £78,400 £70,750 £30,500
Bedfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year -35.71% +65.68% -15.50%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SLA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

SLA job vacancy trend in Bedford

SLA
Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing SLA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing SLA

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared