SLA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SLA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SLA over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 202 249
Rank change year-on-year -63 +47 +8
Permanent jobs citing SLA 406 717 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 1.75% 1.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.45% 12.03% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 337 504 763
10th Percentile £27,800 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £59,545
90th Percentile £69,250 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +5.26% -6.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,297 5,961 11,146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.76% 14.55% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 4,032 6,086
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

SLA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SLA trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SLA.

SLA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SLA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SLA over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

SLA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 54 (13.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.48%) IIS
4 2 (0.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (15.02%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 23 (5.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 13 (3.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 13 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.46%) Infor SunSystems
3 10 (2.46%) iTrent
4 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.25%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.25%) Maximo
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (19.70%) Azure
3 24 (5.91%) Entra ID
3 24 (5.91%) SaaS
4 21 (5.17%) AWS
5 20 (4.93%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.46%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.22%) IaaS
9 8 (1.97%) Mimecast
10 7 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.72%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.48%) PaaS
12 5 (1.23%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.23%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.74%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.74%) Taleo
14 1 (0.25%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.34%) Firewall
2 39 (9.61%) WAN
3 37 (9.11%) LAN
4 28 (6.90%) VPN
5 22 (5.42%) DHCP
6 21 (5.17%) DNS
6 21 (5.17%) TCP/IP
7 19 (4.68%) Internet
8 17 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.45%) SD-WAN
10 13 (3.20%) SAN
11 12 (2.96%) MPLS
12 10 (2.46%) Wireless
13 9 (2.22%) BGP
14 8 (1.97%) OSPF
15 7 (1.72%) LTE
15 7 (1.72%) Unified Communications
15 7 (1.72%) VoIP
15 7 (1.72%) WLAN
16 6 (1.48%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.36%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.17%) Tableau
3 11 (2.71%) MySQL
4 10 (2.46%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (1.72%) DB2
5 7 (1.72%) Power BI
6 6 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.23%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.99%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.49%) VLDB
10 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (6.65%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.74%) Git
2 3 (0.74%) Subversion
3 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 173 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.40%) Finance
3 51 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.16%) Marketing
5 23 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.19%) Legal
7 15 (3.69%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.71%) Banking
9 11 (2.71%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.46%) Law
10 10 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.97%) Retail
12 6 (1.48%) Advertising
12 6 (1.48%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.48%) Games
12 6 (1.48%) Military
13 5 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (12.81%) Support Engineer
2 51 (12.56%) Senior
3 45 (11.08%) Analyst
4 44 (10.84%) Service Manager
5 43 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 39 (9.61%) Lead
7 32 (7.88%) IT Manager
8 24 (5.91%) Applications Support
8 24 (5.91%) Business Development Manager
8 24 (5.91%) Business Manager
8 24 (5.91%) Development Manager
8 24 (5.91%) Support Analyst
9 23 (5.67%) Infrastructure Support
10 22 (5.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 19 (4.68%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (4.68%) IT Support
12 18 (4.43%) IT Services Manager
12 18 (4.43%) Team Leader
13 17 (4.19%) Network Engineer
14 16 (3.94%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.40%) HTML
2 25 (6.16%) CSS
3 8 (1.97%) .NET
4 4 (0.99%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.74%) EDI
6 2 (0.49%) JSON
6 2 (0.49%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.49%) XML
7 1 (0.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.25%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.25%) Middleware
7 1 (0.25%) Node.js
7 1 (0.25%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) SAML
7 1 (0.25%) SOAP
7 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (4.93%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.93%) Life Science
3 16 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.46%) Blackberry
5 10 (2.46%) Clustering
5 10 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.46%) PKI
6 9 (2.22%) BYOD
6 9 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.22%) Replication
7 5 (1.23%) CMDB
7 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.23%) iPad
8 4 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (0.99%) Equities
8 4 (0.99%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (0.74%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 101 (24.88%) Windows
2 47 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 33 (8.13%) Windows 10
4 27 (6.65%) Linux
5 13 (3.20%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.97%) Android
8 6 (1.48%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.23%) Unix
10 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.49%) AIX
12 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.49%) Solaris
12 2 (0.49%) VMS
12 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (29.80%) ITIL
2 110 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (23.15%) Customer Service
4 70 (17.24%) Service Delivery
5 65 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (11.82%) Incident Management
7 42 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (9.36%) Problem Management
9 37 (9.11%) CRM
9 37 (9.11%) Service Management
10 32 (7.88%) Mentoring
10 32 (7.88%) Release Management
11 31 (7.64%) Business Development
12 30 (7.39%) Agile
12 30 (7.39%) ITSM
13 29 (7.14%) Change Management
13 29 (7.14%) Roadmaps
14 28 (6.90%) Decision-Making
15 26 (6.40%) Active Listening
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.29%) SQL
2 31 (7.64%) PowerShell
3 28 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.93%) T-SQL
5 10 (2.46%) Bash
6 9 (2.22%) ActionScript
6 9 (2.22%) VB
7 8 (1.97%) C#
8 6 (1.48%) Python
9 5 (1.23%) Java
10 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (15.52%) Degree
2 24 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (5.42%) CCNA
5 20 (4.93%) CCNP
6 18 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.43%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (3.69%) SC Cleared
8 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.97%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.48%) GCSC
12 5 (1.23%) MCSE
13 3 (0.74%) CCDA
13 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.49%) MCITP
14 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.48%) GDPR
4 5 (1.23%) QA
5 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (22.66%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.94%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.71%) vSphere
5 9 (2.22%) OpenSSH
5 9 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.22%) XenApp
6 8 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.49%) Docker
8 2 (0.49%) Firmware
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Lustre
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 49 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.20%) SCCM
3 9 (2.22%) IBM BigFix
3 9 (2.22%) PowerCLI
3 9 (2.22%) Terraform
3 9 (2.22%) vCenter Server
4 7 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.23%) Ansible
6 4 (0.99%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.74%) Nessus
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.49%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.81%) VMware
3 50 (12.32%) SAP
4 44 (10.84%) Cisco
5 24 (5.91%) Salesforce
6 21 (5.17%) Fortinet
7 18 (4.43%) HP
8 15 (3.69%) Meraki
9 14 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 13 (3.20%) IBM
11 12 (2.96%) Citrix
12 11 (2.71%) Dell
12 11 (2.71%) Oracle
13 10 (2.46%) Infor
14 9 (2.22%) Sun
15 7 (1.72%) F5
16 6 (1.48%) ConnectWise
16 6 (1.48%) Palo Alto
16 6 (1.48%) Ubiquiti
17 5 (1.23%) Apple