SLA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 84 72
Rank change year-on-year -42 -12 +39
Permanent jobs citing SLA 60 195 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.77% 2.90% 4.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.55% 20.68% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 40 121 189
10th Percentile £26,138 £23,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £33,500 £39,475
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -15.14% +20.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £63,750 £59,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £30,500 £39,475
% change year-on-year +36.07% -22.74% +21.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 478 943 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.08% 14.03% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 208 547 511
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.74% -2.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £45,625 £51,000
% change year-on-year +35.89% -10.54% -2.86%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the Thames Valley

SLA
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SLA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SLA in the Thames Valley

SLA
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SLA in the Thames Valley

SLA
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -27 35 £32,500 -7.80% 30
Buckinghamshire +10 23 £52,500 +61.54% 12
Oxfordshire +9 2 £27,500 -35.29% 17
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 13 (21.67%) JBoss
1 13 (21.67%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Amazon ECS
2 13 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (21.67%) Serverless
3 11 (18.33%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.67%) SaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) LAN
1 5 (8.33%) WAN
2 4 (6.67%) BGP
2 4 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (6.67%) IPsec
2 4 (6.67%) Junos
2 4 (6.67%) MPLS
3 3 (5.00%) SAN
4 2 (3.33%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.67%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (21.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Git
1 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
1 13 (21.67%) JUnit
2 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Retail
5 5 (8.33%) Finance
6 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
1 13 (21.67%) Java Developer
1 13 (21.67%) Lead
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
3 6 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 6 (10.00%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 6 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 5 (8.33%) Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) IT Support
5 4 (6.67%) Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (5.00%) Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Customer Service Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Security Assurance Manager
7 2 (3.33%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Site Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Apache Camel
1 13 (21.67%) J2EE
1 13 (21.67%) REST
1 13 (21.67%) RESTful
1 13 (21.67%) SOAP
1 13 (21.67%) Spring
1 13 (21.67%) Spring Boot
1 13 (21.67%) Web Services
2 3 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.00%) PKI
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) EPoS
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) DevOps
2 13 (21.67%) Agile
2 13 (21.67%) BDD
2 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
2 13 (21.67%) Kanban
2 13 (21.67%) Microservices
2 13 (21.67%) Scrum
2 13 (21.67%) TDD
3 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (15.00%) ITIL
4 9 (15.00%) Line Management
4 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (11.67%) Coaching
5 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (11.67%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (11.67%) Security Testing
5 7 (11.67%) Threat Management
5 7 (11.67%) Ticket Management
5 7 (11.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Java
2 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.33%) SQL
4 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) CCNA
2 7 (11.67%) CCNP
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.67%) JNCIS
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.67%) CEH
5 1 (1.67%) CISA
5 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.67%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) COSHH
2 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Ansible
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) VMware
3 6 (10.00%) Veeam
4 5 (8.33%) Cisco
5 4 (6.67%) Juniper
5 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.00%) AlienVault
7 2 (3.33%) Freshdesk
7 2 (3.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.67%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) HP
8 1 (1.67%) SAP
8 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow