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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 102 91
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +64
Contract jobs citing SLA 27 21 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.18% 1.06% 1.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.77% 7.05% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 28
10th Percentile £463 £192 £204
25th Percentile £500 £251 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £485 £530
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -8.49% +51.43%
75th Percentile £569 £514 £553
90th Percentile £600 £528 £691
London median daily rate £497 £350 £439
% change year-on-year +42.00% -20.27% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.41 -
25th Percentile - £18.88 -
Median hourly rate £26.11 £20.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% - -
75th Percentile £38.77 £22.38 -
90th Percentile £61.56 £23.20 -
London median hourly rate £25.77 £22.39 £31.50
% change year-on-year +15.12% -28.94% +43.18%

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 468 298 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.46% 15.11% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 192 306
10th Percentile £363 £375 £366
25th Percentile £450 £461 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £673 £678 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £21.27 £18.41 £24.18
25th Percentile £25.33 £18.88 £30.58
Median hourly rate £26.11 £20.35 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% -52.13% +70.00%
75th Percentile £28.19 £22.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £43.68 £23.20 £67.75
London median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £25.81
% change year-on-year -33.12% +51.26% -41.15%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -14 18 £525 +9.66% 12
West End of London +12 6 £475 -
City of Westminster - 6 £475 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £500 - 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.70%) Datadog
4 1 (3.70%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) Prefect
4 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Broadband
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) IPsec
3 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Local Government
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Service Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Lead
5 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Administrator
7 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Product Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) SIAM Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (7.41%) Systems Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Customer Support Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) ITIL
2 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (37.04%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Backlog Management
5 7 (25.93%) ITSM
6 6 (22.22%) Service Management
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
7 5 (18.52%) Product Management
7 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (14.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (14.81%) Compliance Audit
8 4 (14.81%) Customer Experience
8 4 (14.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Product Backlog
8 4 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
8 4 (14.81%) Runbook
8 4 (14.81%) SIAM
8 4 (14.81%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Groovy
1 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) CCNP
3 1 (3.70%) CCSE
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.81%) Workday
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.70%) Ariba
5 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Juniper
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Trend Micro