SLA Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.95% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.41% 6.67% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.58%
75th Percentile £515 - £275
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 - £250
% change year-on-year - - -15.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.80 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £17.80 £14.97
% change year-on-year - +18.90% +12.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 15 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 12.86% 8.62% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 17
10th Percentile £330 £235 £308
25th Percentile £507 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £400 £410
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -2.44% -13.68%
75th Percentile £656 £447 £415
90th Percentile £675 £505 £590
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £573 £400 £410
% change year-on-year +43.13% -2.44% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £17.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.80% +49.08%
75th Percentile - - £54.06
90th Percentile - - £63.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.42 £18.01 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -27.96% +84.09%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Cambridge

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SLA

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) BYOD
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Escalation Management
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow