SLA Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SLA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 59 17
Rank change year-on-year +31 -42 +15
Permanent jobs citing SLA 3 7 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 1.00% 1.62% 7.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% 21.88% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 16
10th Percentile £28,875 £25,000 -
25th Percentile £32,438 £26,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +30.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £43,313 £81,000 £26,000
90th Percentile £45,825 £96,750 £27,625
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £26,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +73.08% -37.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 36 32 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.00% 7.39% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £71,250 £41,125
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +73.25% -11.08%
75th Percentile £50,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,325 £88,375 £70,625
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

SLA
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SLA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SLA

SLA
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SLA in Bedfordshire

SLA
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton +11 1 £45,000 -52.38%
SLA
East of England

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Freshdesk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware