SLA Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing SLA 7 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.57% 1.31% 2.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.40% 7.69% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £153 £126 £204
25th Percentile £199 £127 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £132 £475
Median % change year-on-year +174.62% -72.21% +46.15%
75th Percentile £500 £135 £500
90th Percentile £523 £135 -
England median daily rate £425 £375 £338
% change year-on-year +13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £21.67 -
25th Percentile - £22.93 £12.75
Median hourly rate £12.82 £25.08 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +27.72% +82.29%
75th Percentile - £25.11 £26.15
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.22 £22.14 £16.19
% change year-on-year -13.19% +36.75% -7.49%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 159 130 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.96% 17.02% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 97 55
10th Percentile £281 £224 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £402 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -19.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £606
90th Percentile £663 £509 £740
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 10
10th Percentile - £15.12 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £18.97 £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.13 £21.92 £19.64
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +11.57% -38.15%
75th Percentile £16.46 £25.11 £26.15
90th Percentile £21.22 £28.68 £27.76
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SLA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in the East Midlands

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Northamptonshire +16 3 £363 - 2
Derbyshire -11 2 £324 +145.45% 3
Nottinghamshire -14 2 - - 4
SLA
England

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) NGFW
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
2 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE Security
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Ariba
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) OpenText
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow