SLA Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Durham

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	11	11
Rank change year-on-year	-	0	+1
Contract jobs citing SLA	0	2	1
As % of all contract jobs in Durham	-	3.92%	2.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	-	20.00%	16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£140
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-26.32%
North East median daily rate	£265	£163	£158
% change year-on-year	+63.08%	+3.17%	-9.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	2	10	6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham	7.14%	19.61%	12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	2	5
10^th Percentile	£493	£175	£176
25^th Percentile	£519	£213	£230
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£275	£260
Median % change year-on-year	+109.09%	+5.77%	-32.90%
75^th Percentile	£619	£338	£400
90^th Percentile	£638	£375	-
North East median daily rate	£475	£385	£430
% change year-on-year	+23.38%	-10.36%	-24.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Median hourly rate	-	£20.75	-
North East median hourly rate	£52.50	£16.00	£16.75
% change year-on-year	+228.13%	-4.48%	-25.56%