SLA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 71 76
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing SLA 39 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.77% 1.60% 1.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.77% 9.52% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 9
10th Percentile £413 £154 £245
25th Percentile £450 £178 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +124.44% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £691 £394 £345
90th Percentile £771 £469 £368
England median daily rate £450 £395 £350
% change year-on-year +13.92% +12.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 10
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.89 £12.94
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.92 £14.41
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.40 £14.97
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +16.23% +15.15%
75th Percentile £20.00 £17.76 £16.13
90th Percentile £20.09 £21.91 £24.71
England median hourly rate £18.79 £22.14 £15.73
% change year-on-year -15.13% +40.75% -13.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 362 210 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.45% 16.80% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 98 79
10th Percentile £363 £221 £223
25th Percentile £450 £359 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £580 £516
90th Percentile £713 £658 £552
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 41 28
10th Percentile £12.90 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.56 £16.92 £14.96
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +29.14% +37.37%
75th Percentile £66.88 £88.00 £34.28
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.62
% change year-on-year +22.38% +18.86% -33.98%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SLA job vacancy trend in the East of England

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in the East of England

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SLA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Hertfordshire +2 31 £650 +271.43% 16
Essex - 5 £425 - 4
Cambridgeshire +9 2 £510 - 9
Suffolk -11 1 £150 -33.33% 1
SLA
England

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
1 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (5.13%) OCI
1 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
1 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
1 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
2 1 (2.56%) PaaS
2 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
1 2 (5.13%) NAS
1 2 (5.13%) SAN
1 2 (5.13%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) GitLab
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Administrator
2 7 (17.95%) IT Support
3 4 (10.26%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (10.26%) Technical Support
4 2 (5.13%) Coordinator
4 2 (5.13%) IT Technician
4 2 (5.13%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (5.13%) SAP Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Service Desk Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Service Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.56%) Consultant
5 1 (2.56%) Head of Applications
5 1 (2.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Lead
5 1 (2.56%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 1 (2.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (2.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) LDAP
1 4 (10.26%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) PMI
3 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.13%) BYOD
3 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.13%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) CentOS
5 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Time Management
2 10 (25.64%) ITIL
3 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) ERP
4 6 (15.38%) Logistics
4 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.82%) ITSM
5 5 (12.82%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Information Management
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 4 (10.26%) Service Delivery
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.69%) Change Management
7 3 (7.69%) Cutover Planning
7 3 (7.69%) Data Migration
7 3 (7.69%) Migration
7 3 (7.69%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) MATLAB
1 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) C#
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) X++
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (5.13%) MCSE
6 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) ServiceCenter
3 4 (10.26%) Check_MK
3 4 (10.26%) Podman
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.56%) SCOM
5 1 (2.56%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) VMware
3 5 (12.82%) Apple
3 5 (12.82%) Dell
3 5 (12.82%) HP
3 5 (12.82%) SAP
3 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Remedy
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk