SLA Contracts in Hertfordshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 53 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +4
Contract jobs citing SLA 12 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.44% 2.51% 4.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.82% 22.89% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 29
10th Percentile £225 £193 £102
25th Percentile £256 £211 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 £275 £138
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +100.00% -65.63%
75th Percentile £346 £330 £200
90th Percentile £378 £538 £370
East of England median daily rate £265 £275 £313
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +36.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.37
25th Percentile - - £12.49
Median hourly rate £14.41 - £14.36
75th Percentile £19.21 - £15.43
90th Percentile £22.08 - £16.07
East of England median hourly rate £14.41 £13.58 £13.50
% change year-on-year +6.11% +0.59% +5.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 55 83 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.59% 10.96% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 78
10th Percentile £174 £243 £123
25th Percentile £259 £275 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +20.48% -12.63%
75th Percentile £447 £713 £619
90th Percentile £533 £793 £720
East of England median daily rate £410 £450 £430
% change year-on-year -8.89% +4.65% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £14.35 £19.96 £12.86
25th Percentile £14.41 £51.06 £14.93
Median hourly rate £15.40 £63.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.84% +136.11% +80.00%
75th Percentile £24.00 £74.38 £41.35
90th Percentile £29.30 £81.44 £46.92
East of England median hourly rate £15.79 £17.61 £20.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -14.10% +36.67%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Hertfordshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Hertfordshire

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Hertfordshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Hertfordshire

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Stevenage 0 10 £339 +23.18% 4
Welwyn Garden City +5 1 £165 -21.43% 1
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £250 - 4
SLA
East of England

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (25.00%) IIS
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (8.33%) PTC Creo
2 1 (8.33%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
4 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (16.67%) BYOD
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Android
3 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (25.00%) Release Management
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Case
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) CAFM
3 2 (16.67%) Facilities Management
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Statistics
3 2 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (8.33%) CCNP
5 1 (8.33%) CCSA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Juniper
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (8.33%) Twitter
1 1 (8.33%) VMware