SLA Contracts in Berkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SLA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SLA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing SLA 64 48 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.35% 2.74% 2.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.85% 20.17% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 29
10th Percentile £148 £159 £143
25th Percentile £232 £188 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +2.41% +4.15%
75th Percentile £315 £473 £500
90th Percentile £350 £475 £625
South East median daily rate £285 £240 £293
% change year-on-year +18.75% -17.95% -31.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £17.15 £10.18
25th Percentile - £18.50 £10.81
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -
75th Percentile - - £13.06
90th Percentile - £20.30 £13.63
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -2.70% +12.12% -2.94%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

SLA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 307 238 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.08% 13.58% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 121 217
10th Percentile £254 £363 £306
25th Percentile £325 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile £31.70 £17.63 £12.73
25th Percentile £51.50 £18.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £67.59 £20.50 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +229.71% -2.50% -0.12%
75th Percentile £72.01 £41.50 £24.25
90th Percentile £75.30 £67.46 £39.02
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +12.24% +16.67% -30.27%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Berkshire

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell 0 32 - -
Reading -1 12 £350 +12.00% 11
Slough +20 11 £285 -32.94% 6
Maidenhead -4 2 £232 -64.31% 1
Newbury +1 1 £250 - 2
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.13%) Azure
2 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.56%) AWS
3 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) SAN
2 7 (10.94%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (7.81%) LAN
3 5 (7.81%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.81%) WAN
4 2 (3.13%) 3G
4 2 (3.13%) 4G
4 2 (3.13%) 5G
4 2 (3.13%) GPRS
4 2 (3.13%) XCAP
5 1 (1.56%) DNS
5 1 (1.56%) FTP
5 1 (1.56%) VoLTE
5 1 (1.56%) VoWiFi
5 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) GIS
1 2 (3.13%) Power BI
1 2 (3.13%) Tableau
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.56%) JUnit
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.69%) Marketing
4 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) 1st Line Support
2 11 (17.19%) Operations Technician
3 8 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) IT Technician
4 6 (9.38%) IT Support
5 5 (7.81%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Support Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Support
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Support Specialist
6 4 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 4 (6.25%) Support Technician
7 3 (4.69%) Creative Designer
7 3 (4.69%) Designer
8 2 (3.13%) Data Centre Technician
8 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Project Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) RAN Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) RAN Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Camel
1 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.56%) Node.js
1 1 (1.56%) REST
1 1 (1.56%) RESTful
1 1 (1.56%) SOAP
1 1 (1.56%) Spring
1 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Data Centre
1 11 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Unix
2 8 (12.50%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Service Delivery
2 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (15.63%) Incident Management
4 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
5 6 (9.38%) Break/Fix
5 6 (9.38%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (7.81%) Customer Experience
6 5 (7.81%) Knowledge Management
7 3 (4.69%) Project Delivery
7 3 (4.69%) Project Management
7 3 (4.69%) Storytelling
7 3 (4.69%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement Process
8 2 (3.13%) Data Management
8 2 (3.13%) ITIL
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Engineering
8 2 (3.13%) Ticket Management
8 2 (3.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) Java
1 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
3 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CPIM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) SCCM
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) HP
3 10 (15.63%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.94%) Dell
5 3 (4.69%) Adobe
6 2 (3.13%) Remedy
6 2 (3.13%) Workday
7 1 (1.56%) BT
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.56%) IFS
7 1 (1.56%) Mavenir
7 1 (1.56%) Nokia
7 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto