SLA Contracts in Edinburgh

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 87 112
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing SLA 18 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.11% 1.02% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.23% 4.23% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 11
10th Percentile £217 £131 £153
25th Percentile £240 £141 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £286 £163 £190
Median % change year-on-year +76.15% -14.47% -52.50%
75th Percentile £340 £188 £380
90th Percentile - £194 £475
Scotland median daily rate £286 £170 £240
% change year-on-year +68.38% -29.17% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £18.05 - £30.55
25th Percentile £18.14 - £32.13
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £36.50
75th Percentile - - £39.13
90th Percentile - - £39.65
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £13.83 £16.13
% change year-on-year +25.49% -14.23% +24.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 195 284 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.81% 24.13% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 243 325
10th Percentile £213 £202 £230
25th Percentile £311 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £552 £545 £545
90th Percentile £650 £599 £591
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £17.42 - £20.22
25th Percentile £18.27 - £23.70
Median hourly rate £19.17 - £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 - £38.25
90th Percentile - - £39.30
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £18.13 £35.22
% change year-on-year -4.25% -48.53% +76.08%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Support
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) Management Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) Service Management Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Solaris
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) ITSM
2 6 (33.33%) Process Management
2 6 (33.33%) Service Management
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
5 2 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
6 1 (5.56%) Change Management
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) RHCE
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) KVM
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Apple