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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 69 71
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing SLA 47 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.94% 1.83% 1.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.14% 10.57% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £463 £156 £254
25th Percentile £488 £244 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £350 £331
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +5.66% -18.71%
75th Percentile £788 £400 £345
90th Percentile £807 £435 £346
England median daily rate £425 £375 £300
% change year-on-year +13.33% +25.00% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 7
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.69 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.59 £16.45 £13.71
Median hourly rate £20.19 £16.92 £15.14
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% +11.76% +11.49%
75th Percentile £72.44 £17.96 £16.00
90th Percentile £73.73 - £22.20
England median hourly rate £19.33 £22.14 £18.13
% change year-on-year -12.69% +22.12% +1.03%

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 422 227 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.42% 17.32% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 102 64
10th Percentile £313 £214 £252
25th Percentile £410 £352 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -13.50%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £550
90th Percentile £724 £650 £605
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 43 20
10th Percentile £12.96 £13.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.45 £15.55
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £28.06
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% +12.22% -36.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.90 £91.50 £68.08
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -5.75%

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 26 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SLA in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SLA in the East of England

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 26 September 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 -4 38 £650 +85.71% 19
Cambridgeshire +6 6 £510 +45.71% 18
Bedfordshire -2 1 - - 3
Essex - 1 - - 10
Suffolk - 1 £150 - 3
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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (4.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.38%) GCP
3 2 (4.26%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.26%) Google Workspace
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
3 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
1 2 (4.26%) NAS
1 2 (4.26%) SAN
1 2 (4.26%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) BigQuery
1 4 (8.51%) Looker
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
1 4 (8.51%) GitLab
1 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.64%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Administrator
3 4 (8.51%) Applications Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Applications Specialist
3 4 (8.51%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.51%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) IT Technician
3 4 (8.51%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (8.51%) Report Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Report Specialist
3 4 (8.51%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.51%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.26%) IT Support
4 2 (4.26%) Repair Technician
4 2 (4.26%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.26%) Technical Support
5 1 (2.13%) Account Manager
5 1 (2.13%) Lead
5 1 (2.13%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) LDAP
1 4 (8.51%) Middleware
2 3 (6.38%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.77%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.51%) CMDB
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) PMI
5 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.26%) BYOD
5 2 (4.26%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (40.43%) Windows
2 16 (34.04%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.64%) Linux
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.51%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Configuration Management
1 18 (38.30%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (31.91%) Root Cause Analysis
3 14 (29.79%) Incident Response
3 14 (29.79%) Network Management
4 13 (27.66%) Incident Management
4 13 (27.66%) ITIL
4 13 (27.66%) Storage Management
5 8 (17.02%) Asset Management
5 8 (17.02%) ITSM
6 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
7 6 (12.77%) Data Modelling
7 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.77%) Time Management
8 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
8 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.51%) Data Collection
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
1 6 (12.77%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) MATLAB
2 4 (8.51%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.38%) Google Apps Script
4 2 (4.26%) C#
4 2 (4.26%) X++
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (76.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (31.91%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (4.26%) MCSE
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 20 (42.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Ansible
2 4 (8.51%) Check_MK
2 4 (8.51%) Podman
2 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.13%) SCOM
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.89%) VMware
4 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.51%) Remedy
5 3 (6.38%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) Apple
7 1 (2.13%) Dell
7 1 (2.13%) HP
7 1 (2.13%) Splunk