SLA Contract Job Trends in East London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
London > East London

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 0
Contract jobs citing SLA 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.13% 0.86% 3.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 3.85% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £264 - -
25th Percentile £387 £475 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +11.11% +95.65%
75th Percentile £797 £525 £500
90th Percentile £919 - -
London median daily rate £480 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +60.00% -36.84% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.04 - -
London median hourly rate £25.77 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +14.53% -29.69% +54.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 26 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 28.13% 22.41% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 55
10th Percentile £422 - £400
25th Percentile £448 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £519 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -3.94% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £644
90th Percentile £681 £675 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £20.17 - -
25th Percentile £21.65 - -
Median hourly rate £24.21 - £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.85%
75th Percentile £26.67 - -
90th Percentile £28.09 - -
London median hourly rate £26.11 £37.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -29.43% +28.70% -17.86%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

SLA job vacancy trend in East London

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

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

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in East London over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in East London

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

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

SLA
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Lewisham - 1 - -
Tower Hamlets - 1 £1,000 -
Havering - 1 £185 -
SLA
London

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Physics
1 1 (33.33%) PnL Attribution
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft