SLA Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing SLA 6 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.84% 7.45% 2.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.96% 57.14% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £167 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £176 £178
Median % change year-on-year +184.09% -0.85% -64.46%
75th Percentile - £194 £179
90th Percentile - £205 -
County Antrim median daily rate £500 £176 £178
% change year-on-year +184.09% -0.85% -64.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
Median hourly rate £12.31 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £12.31 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year -49.09% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Belfast

SLA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 31.75% 13.04% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 7 17
10th Percentile £300 £167 £194
25th Percentile £361 £175 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £200 £493
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% -59.39% +2.07%
75th Percentile £605 £541 £638
90th Percentile £634 £581 -
County Antrim median daily rate £525 £200 £493
% change year-on-year +162.50% -59.39% +2.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.31 - -
Median hourly rate £13.60 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.76% +34.33% -
75th Percentile £15.33 - -
90th Percentile £24.50 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £13.60 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year -43.76% +34.33% -

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SLA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

SLA job vacancy trend in Belfast

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SLA

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Remote Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Due Diligence
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Assurance
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) OneTrust