SLA Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +9
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.55% 0.98% 2.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.13% 7.50% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £247 £200
Median % change year-on-year +41.70% +23.50% -38.46%
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £259 £233
% change year-on-year +54.74% +11.18% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.29
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £14.16
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £15.15 £14.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% +8.18% +3.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 40 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.71% 13.03% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 17
10th Percentile £309 £400 £294
25th Percentile £350 £450 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £613 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £685
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.16 -
25th Percentile £13.57 £24.72 £13.29
Median hourly rate £14.37 £33.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.28% +140.18% -12.50%
75th Percentile £15.16 £43.72 £14.16
90th Percentile - £48.99 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £50.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -63.00% +36.99% +105.98%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Cambridge -9 1 - - 2
Peterborough - 1 £350 - 3
SLA
East of England

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Kaspersky
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos