SLA Contracts in Central London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 88 138
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 20 45 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 1.84% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.37% 10.66% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 16
10th Percentile £197 £173 £155
25th Percentile £263 £263 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +63.08% -37.35%
75th Percentile £530 £545 £552
90th Percentile £578 £690 £663
London median daily rate £388 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -20.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £18.73 £17.20 £21.40
25th Percentile £19.67 £19.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -11.32%
75th Percentile £22.88 £23.90 £24.50
90th Percentile £23.40 £23.96 £24.80
London median hourly rate £22.27 £23.99 £19.22
% change year-on-year -7.17% +24.85% -27.49%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 314 422 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.72% 17.25% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 301 356
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.96 £21.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 £24.50
90th Percentile - £35.16 £24.80
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Central London

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Central London

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Central London

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Central London

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -10 16 £500 - 11
West End of London -7 2 - - 2
SLA
London

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) BGP
2 2 (10.00%) Broadband
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (10.00%) IPv6
2 2 (10.00%) MPLS
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) IPsec
3 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Back Office
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ICT Support
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Android
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) ITSM
3 4 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (10.00%) Business Case
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) SIAM
5 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCIE
2 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CCSE
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
1 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Trend Micro
4 1 (5.00%) Zscaler