SLA Contract Job Trends in Central London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 108 95
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 +44
Contract jobs citing SLA 32 21 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.26% 1.04% 1.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.39% 5.51% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 19
10th Percentile £152 £244 £144
25th Percentile £225 £425 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% -5.67% +10.36%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £669
90th Percentile £598 £588 £700
London median daily rate £425 £413 £325
% change year-on-year +3.03% +26.92% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £22.46 £17.20
25th Percentile £72.25 £23.14 £19.00
Median hourly rate £74.50 £24.29 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +206.77% +5.59% -
75th Percentile £76.75 £25.43 £23.90
90th Percentile - £26.11 £23.96
London median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.67% +32.30%

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 501 381 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.69% 18.90% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 268 239
10th Percentile £350 £314 £360
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -7.78%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £753
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £39.91 £22.60 £18.40
25th Percentile £46.04 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +69.12% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £67.75 £35.50 £26.56
90th Percentile £73.15 £63.15 £36.87
London median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £27.92
% change year-on-year -2.59% +21.78% +1.53%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Central London

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Central London over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Central London

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SLA

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 22 August 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
City of London -13 20 £488 -6.20% 12
Kensington and Chelsea +1 5 £150 -66.67% 1
West End of London -8 1 £585 +172.09% 1
City of Westminster - 1 £175 - 2
SLA
London

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Datadog
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) dbt
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) SSL
3 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 2 (6.25%) Firewall
4 2 (6.25%) SSH
5 1 (3.13%) IPsec
5 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
5 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.13%) WinSCP
5 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) MySQL
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
5 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Deskside Support
6 2 (6.25%) Hardware Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) iPhone
1 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) AS400
3 1 (3.13%) BYOD
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) iPad
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows 10
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.25%) Android
6 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.13%) OpenVMS
6 1 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) ITIL
2 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
3 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
3 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 5 (15.63%) Backlog Management
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
4 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
4 5 (15.63%) Service Management
4 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (15.63%) Ticket Management
4 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.50%) ITSM
5 4 (12.50%) Product Management
5 4 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) COBOL
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) A+ Certification
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) CCSE
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) NCSC
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.13%) SCCM
2 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) HP
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Remedy
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.13%) Apple
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.13%) Freshdesk
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.13%) Veeam
5 1 (3.13%) Veritas