SLA Job Trends in Surrey

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SLA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 34
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 +48
Permanent jobs citing SLA 45 38 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.97% 3.20% 6.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.85% 18.72% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 29 14 119
10th Percentile £26,400 £23,500 -
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,125 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +24.00% -40.48%
75th Percentile £39,000 £36,688 £33,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £36,750 £45,844
South East median annual salary £35,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% -14.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 325 203 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 14.24% 17.10% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 243 123 227
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 -
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -7.77%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Surrey

SLA
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SLA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SLA

SLA
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SLA in Surrey

SLA
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Guildford -22 8 £32,500 +16.07% 1
Epsom -3 4 £40,000 -
Redhill +8 3 £45,000 - 1
Staines - 3 £32,500 -
Farnham - 2 - -
Godalming - 2 £31,250 -
Egham - 2 - - 1
Camberley -3 1 £33,750 -
Reigate -19 1 £38,000 - 2
Woking - 1 £81,000 -
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (13.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.22%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) Azure
4 1 (2.22%) ClickUp
4 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) BGP
2 4 (8.89%) IPsec
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 4 (8.89%) VPN
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.67%) DHCP
3 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) MPLS
3 3 (6.67%) Multicast
3 3 (6.67%) OSPF
3 3 (6.67%) VoIP
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (4.44%) Wireless
5 1 (2.22%) Firewall
5 1 (2.22%) SNMP
5 1 (2.22%) SSH
5 1 (2.22%) VLAN
5 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) MySQL
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 30 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Analyst
1 10 (22.22%) Applications Support
2 8 (17.78%) Service Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Service Desk Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Service Desk Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Help Desk Agent
4 6 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) ITIL Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Service Desk Support
4 6 (13.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Windows Support Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) CSS
2 3 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Customer Service
2 22 (48.89%) ITIL
3 18 (40.00%) ITSM
4 11 (24.44%) Commercial Awareness
4 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.22%) CRM
6 9 (20.00%) Balanced Scorecard
6 9 (20.00%) Logistics
6 9 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 9 (20.00%) Scorecard
7 8 (17.78%) Asset Management
7 8 (17.78%) Incident Management
7 8 (17.78%) Project Management
8 7 (15.56%) Change Management
8 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (13.33%) Application Packaging
9 6 (13.33%) Knowledge Management
9 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
10 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) C#
1 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 3 (6.67%) Python
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Degree
2 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) CCNP
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.67%) CCNA
5 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (22.22%) SCCM
3 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (20.00%) SAP
4 6 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 6 (13.33%) Qualys
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco
6 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) BT
7 1 (2.22%) Thales