SLA Jobs in the West Midlands

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 93 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing SLA 125 187 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.01% 2.37% 3.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.78% 16.08% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 97 161 158
10th Percentile - £23,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,822 £25,500 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,580 £28,119 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -25.02% +7.14%
75th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £62,250 £64,375 £67,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -18.75% +6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 745 1,163 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.97% 14.77% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 356 872 689
10th Percentile £28,822 £27,500 £30,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,089 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +2.43% +8.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the West Midlands

SLA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SLA in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for SLA in the West Midlands

SLA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SLA in the West Midlands

SLA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Staffordshire -3 49 £28,822 +4.24% 17
Warwickshire +10 28 £29,500 -46.85% 8
Sutton Coldfield +15 15 £30,580 +13.26%
Birmingham +25 12 £65,000 +21.50% 13
Coventry +2 8 £57,500 -17.86% 8
Solihull 0 5 £58,750 +99.15% 2
Herefordshire +9 2 - -
SLA
England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.60%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 77 (61.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (2.40%) AWS
2 3 (2.40%) Azure
2 3 (2.40%) OneDrive
2 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
2 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
2 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
2 3 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (1.60%) GCP
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.80%) Azure AKS
4 1 (0.80%) Cloudflare
4 1 (0.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.40%) LAN
1 18 (14.40%) WAN
2 12 (9.60%) MPLS
3 11 (8.80%) BGP
4 10 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (8.00%) Firewall
4 10 (8.00%) IPsec
4 10 (8.00%) Junos
5 6 (4.80%) DHCP
5 6 (4.80%) DNS
5 6 (4.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.60%) SAN
7 2 (1.60%) Skype
7 2 (1.60%) Wireless
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.80%) OSPF
8 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.80%) TACACS
8 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Finance
3 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (68.00%) Business Manager
2 77 (61.60%) Business Development Manager
2 77 (61.60%) Development Manager
3 11 (8.80%) Architect
3 11 (8.80%) Network Architect
4 8 (6.40%) Analyst
4 8 (6.40%) Business Systems Manager
4 8 (6.40%) Support Manager
4 8 (6.40%) Systems Manager
4 8 (6.40%) Systems Support
4 8 (6.40%) Systems Support Manager
5 6 (4.80%) Support Assistant
5 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Technical Support
5 6 (4.80%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (3.20%) IT Analyst
6 4 (3.20%) IT Support
6 4 (3.20%) Service Manager
7 3 (2.40%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.80%) JMS
1 1 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.60%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.40%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.60%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.80%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (61.60%) Active Listening
1 77 (61.60%) B2B
1 77 (61.60%) Business Development
1 77 (61.60%) CRM
1 77 (61.60%) Deadline-Driven
1 77 (61.60%) Value Proposition
2 24 (19.20%) Customer Value Proposition
3 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 13 (10.40%) Change Management
6 12 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (8.00%) Network Design
9 9 (7.20%) Incident Management
9 9 (7.20%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (6.40%) Customer Service
11 7 (5.60%) SIEM
12 6 (4.80%) Proactive Monitoring
12 6 (4.80%) Test Scripting
13 5 (4.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.40%) SQL
2 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.80%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.80%) CCNP
2 11 (8.80%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (8.00%) CCNA
3 10 (8.00%) Degree
3 10 (8.00%) JNCIS
3 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) GISP
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.80%) CISA
5 1 (0.80%) CISM
5 1 (0.80%) CISSP
5 1 (0.80%) GIAC
5 1 (0.80%) ISACA
5 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) GDPR
1 3 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.60%) SCCM
1 2 (1.60%) SCOM
1 2 (1.60%) SCOrch
1 2 (1.60%) SCSM
2 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.80%) Nagios
Vendors
1 80 (64.00%) SAP
2 77 (61.60%) Salesforce
3 19 (15.20%) Cisco
4 16 (12.80%) Juniper
5 13 (10.40%) Microsoft
6 9 (7.20%) VMware
7 6 (4.80%) Dell
7 6 (4.80%) McAfee
8 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.60%) Meraki
9 1 (0.80%) Aruba
9 1 (0.80%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.80%) Infor
9 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.80%) Tenable