Service Level Agreement (SLA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 150 216
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 -27
Permanent jobs citing SLA 2,071 2,249 3,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 2.42% 1.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.89% 13.35% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 1,468 2,142
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £39,475 £35,000
% change year-on-year -24.00% +12.79% -6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,908 16,850 29,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 18.10% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 8,352 13,447
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in the UK

SLA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SLA in the UK

SLA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SLA in the UK

SLA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 1,867 £32,500 -18.75% 400
UK excluding London -9 1,642 £30,000 -24.00% 338
South East +2 503 £31,250 -20.84% 70
Work from Home -66 423 £47,500 +5.56% 143
London -13 386 £45,000 - 79
North of England -7 378 £29,500 -20.27% 95
Midlands +2 287 £28,500 -24.00% 71
West Midlands +10 199 £28,119 -25.02% 52
South West -3 166 £37,500 +0.22% 40
North West -4 165 £28,750 -36.11% 55
East of England -46 142 £32,500 -40.91% 37
Yorkshire -6 139 £37,500 +15.38% 29
Scotland -42 93 £24,811 -37.97% 21
East Midlands -17 88 £28,500 -13.64% 19
North East +19 74 £24,960 -30.67% 11
Wales +20 70 £26,500 -17.19% 10
Northern Ireland +9 7 £28,000 -37.78% 8

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 194 (9.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 68 (3.28%) WebLogic
4 43 (2.08%) Oracle Service Bus
5 28 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.48%) CMS
7 7 (0.34%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) IIS
8 5 (0.24%) JBoss
9 3 (0.14%) IBM Notes
9 3 (0.14%) Moodle
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.097%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.097%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.048%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.048%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.048%) OpenStack
Applications
1 335 (16.18%) Microsoft Office
2 123 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (2.46%) MS Visio
4 29 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.097%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 47 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 42 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 13 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.63%) iTrent
6 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.24%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.19%) Endur
7 4 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.097%) assyst
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 511 (24.67%) Microsoft 365
2 314 (15.16%) Azure
3 159 (7.68%) SaaS
4 126 (6.08%) AWS
5 67 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 33 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 30 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.35%) Mimecast
9 23 (1.11%) GCP
9 23 (1.11%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (0.97%) Snowflake
12 18 (0.87%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.82%) IaaS
14 14 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (0.68%) Google Workspace
15 13 (0.63%) PaaS
16 7 (0.34%) Azure AKS
17 6 (0.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (0.29%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 170 (8.21%) Firewall
2 128 (6.18%) DNS
3 120 (5.79%) LAN
4 114 (5.50%) DHCP
5 112 (5.41%) WAN
6 107 (5.17%) VPN
7 98 (4.73%) TCP/IP
8 95 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (2.90%) SAN
9 60 (2.90%) Wireless
10 58 (2.80%) Internet
11 36 (1.74%) VoIP
12 28 (1.35%) SD-WAN
13 27 (1.30%) MPLS
13 27 (1.30%) Network Security
14 25 (1.21%) VLAN
15 23 (1.11%) OSPF
16 21 (1.01%) WLAN
17 19 (0.92%) BGP
17 19 (0.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 51 (2.46%) Oracle Database
3 43 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
3 43 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
3 43 (2.08%) VLDB
4 35 (1.69%) Tableau
5 34 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (1.30%) Big Data
7 26 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.11%) DB2
9 18 (0.87%) MySQL
10 16 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.68%) Apache Hive
12 14 (0.68%) Hadoop
12 14 (0.68%) Impala
13 13 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
14 12 (0.58%) Power BI
15 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 56 (2.70%) JIRA
2 6 (0.29%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.19%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.14%) Git
5 3 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.097%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.097%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.097%) GitLab
6 2 (0.097%) Subversion
6 2 (0.097%) Toad
7 1 (0.048%) git-flow
7 1 (0.048%) MSI
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.048%) Postman
General
1 991 (47.85%) Social Skills
2 459 (22.16%) Finance
3 323 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (11.54%) Law
5 216 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (6.81%) Retail
7 132 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
8 96 (4.64%) Billing
9 91 (4.39%) Telecoms
10 88 (4.25%) Banking
11 72 (3.48%) Legal
12 60 (2.90%) Marketing
13 49 (2.37%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.22%) Manufacturing
15 42 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.50%) Back Office
17 30 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
18 28 (1.35%) Police
19 26 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 22 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 391 (18.88%) Analyst
2 250 (12.07%) Senior
3 234 (11.30%) Service Manager
4 216 (10.43%) Support Engineer
5 191 (9.22%) Support Analyst
6 187 (9.03%) IT Support
7 152 (7.34%) Delivery Manager
7 152 (7.34%) Service Delivery Manager
8 139 (6.71%) Applications Support
9 138 (6.66%) Lead
10 134 (6.47%) Service Analyst
11 128 (6.18%) Service Desk Analyst
12 103 (4.97%) Senior Manager
13 100 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 100 (4.83%) IT Engineer
13 100 (4.83%) Senior Service Manager
14 95 (4.59%) Senior Delivery Manager
14 95 (4.59%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
15 91 (4.39%) Applications Support Analyst
16 87 (4.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.22%) Spring
2 32 (1.55%) HTML
3 26 (1.26%) .NET
4 25 (1.21%) CSS
4 25 (1.21%) J2EE
4 25 (1.21%) Java EE
5 24 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.11%) React
7 22 (1.06%) RESTful
8 20 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.63%) Kafka
10 11 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (0.43%) LDAP
12 8 (0.39%) REST
13 7 (0.34%) ADSI
13 7 (0.34%) ARM Templates
13 7 (0.34%) Web Services
14 6 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
14 6 (0.29%) SOAP
14 6 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (10.19%) Self-Motivation
2 133 (6.42%) Driving Licence
3 112 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 101 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
5 90 (4.35%) Digital Signage
5 90 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 76 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 50 (2.41%) Cloud Native
9 44 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.55%) EPoS
11 27 (1.30%) Clustering
12 24 (1.16%) Product Ownership
13 21 (1.01%) Life Science
14 20 (0.97%) Replication
15 19 (0.92%) IoT
16 17 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 14 (0.68%) PKI
18 13 (0.63%) BYOD
19 11 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 588 (28.39%) Windows
2 258 (12.46%) Windows Server
3 157 (7.58%) Windows 10
4 153 (7.39%) Linux
5 96 (4.64%) Unix
6 57 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 51 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 50 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 47 (2.27%) Solaris
10 44 (2.12%) Apple iOS
11 37 (1.79%) Android
12 25 (1.21%) AIX
13 14 (0.68%) Mac OS
14 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 11 (0.53%) Windows 7
16 8 (0.39%) CentOS
16 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.29%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (33.75%) Customer Service
2 546 (26.36%) ITIL
3 532 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
4 378 (18.25%) Service Delivery
5 252 (12.17%) Service Management
6 241 (11.64%) Incident Management
7 196 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 170 (8.21%) ITSM
9 167 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 161 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 135 (6.52%) Asset Management
12 133 (6.42%) Contract Negotiation
12 133 (6.42%) Time Management
13 127 (6.13%) Agile
14 125 (6.04%) Change Management
15 123 (5.94%) Decision-Making
16 119 (5.75%) Performance Management
17 118 (5.70%) Presales
18 111 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
19 110 (5.31%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 218 (10.53%) SQL
2 79 (3.81%) Java
3 68 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 60 (2.90%) PL/SQL
4 60 (2.90%) Python
5 43 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.40%) Shell Script
7 27 (1.30%) Scala
8 26 (1.26%) C#
9 22 (1.06%) Bash
10 20 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.63%) ActionScript
11 13 (0.63%) VB
12 6 (0.29%) Bicep
12 6 (0.29%) Perl
13 5 (0.24%) Ruby
14 2 (0.097%) PHP
15 1 (0.048%) C
15 1 (0.048%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.048%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 248 (11.97%) Degree
2 237 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 130 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 77 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 63 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 62 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
8 53 (2.56%) CCNA
9 38 (1.83%) CCNP
10 35 (1.69%) DBS Check
11 34 (1.64%) MCP
12 32 (1.55%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.40%) A+ Certification
13 29 (1.40%) Azure Certification
14 19 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (0.87%) HND
15 18 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (0.82%) MCSE
16 17 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.63%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.41%) GDPR
1 50 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 28 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (1.16%) QA
5 17 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.82%) PMO
6 15 (0.72%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.19%) NIST
10 2 (0.097%) COBIT
10 2 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.097%) GRC
10 2 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.097%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.048%) COSHH
11 1 (0.048%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.048%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.048%) SOC 2
System Software
1 461 (22.26%) Active Directory
2 126 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 43 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
5 39 (1.88%) KVM
6 36 (1.74%) Firmware
7 24 (1.16%) vSphere
8 20 (0.97%) XenApp
9 18 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.63%) OpenSSH
12 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
13 6 (0.29%) Docker
13 6 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
13 6 (0.29%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.19%) LXC
14 4 (0.19%) Squid
14 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.048%) Lustre
15 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 106 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (3.04%) SCCM
3 44 (2.12%) Oracle RMAN
4 43 (2.08%) Data Guard
5 26 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.21%) Kubernetes
6 25 (1.21%) OpenSSO
7 21 (1.01%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.87%) WSUS
9 14 (0.68%) NetBackup
10 13 (0.63%) IBM BigFix
10 13 (0.63%) PowerCLI
11 12 (0.58%) Backup Exec
11 12 (0.58%) Terraform
12 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.43%) Ansible
14 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.29%) Istio
15 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 818 (39.50%) Microsoft
2 207 (10.00%) VMware
3 188 (9.08%) Dell
4 177 (8.55%) ServiceNow
5 135 (6.52%) Cisco
6 127 (6.13%) Oracle
7 90 (4.35%) SAP
8 83 (4.01%) Citrix
9 75 (3.62%) Remedy
10 74 (3.57%) HP
11 57 (2.75%) IBM
12 53 (2.56%) Apple
13 52 (2.51%) Salesforce
14 48 (2.32%) Sun
15 39 (1.88%) NetApp
16 37 (1.79%) Meraki
17 33 (1.59%) Sophos
17 33 (1.59%) Veeam
18 26 (1.26%) Google
19 24 (1.16%) Fortinet