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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 104 90
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +51
Contract jobs citing SLA 29 20 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.18% 1.00% 1.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.14% 6.33% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 29
10th Percentile £380 £197 £173
25th Percentile £500 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +63.08%
75th Percentile £569 £530 £545
90th Percentile £600 £578 £690
London median daily rate £486 £388 £400
% change year-on-year +25.42% -3.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £18.73 £17.20
25th Percentile - £19.67 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £38.77 £22.88 £23.90
90th Percentile £61.56 £23.40 £23.96
London median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £23.99
% change year-on-year +15.72% -7.17% +24.85%

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 472 316 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.22% 15.82% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 200 298
10th Percentile £345 £360 £363
25th Percentile £427 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £801 £775
London median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £20.69 £19.36 £17.96
25th Percentile £24.56 £21.25 £20.44
Median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -0.43%
75th Percentile £26.93 £24.25 £25.92
90th Percentile £47.35 - £35.16
London median hourly rate £27.75 £34.75 £24.50
% change year-on-year -20.14% +41.84% -7.55%

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 2 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SLA in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 May 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 -12 20 £525 +5.00% 12
West End of London +8 6 £475 -
City of Westminster - 6 £475 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £500 -
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 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.45%) Datadog
5 1 (3.45%) dbt
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) Prefect
5 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Broadband
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) IPsec
2 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Local Government
4 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior Security Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Service Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Product Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) SIAM Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) SAML
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) BYOD
3 1 (3.45%) iPhone
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) ITIL
1 13 (44.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (41.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (31.03%) Backlog Management
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (27.59%) ITSM
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) Incident Response
5 7 (24.14%) Product Management
6 6 (20.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Product Backlog
6 6 (20.69%) Programme Management
6 6 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (20.69%) Risk Management
6 6 (20.69%) SDLC
6 6 (20.69%) Security Architecture
6 6 (20.69%) Service Management
6 6 (20.69%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Groovy
1 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.45%) Python
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) CCSE
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Workday
3 2 (6.90%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) IBM
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.45%) Freshdesk
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Trend Micro