SLA Contract Job Trends in London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 231 197
Rank change year-on-year -10 -34 +69
Contract jobs citing SLA 185 122 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.01% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.50% 6.25% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 84 128
10th Percentile £210 £207 £168
25th Percentile £373 £225 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £675 £631
England median daily rate £460 £310 £330
% change year-on-year +48.39% -6.06% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 24
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.68 £21.81 £18.10
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -5.95% +28.93%
75th Percentile £26.11 £28.82 £38.25
90th Percentile £62.38 £46.05 £52.98
England median hourly rate £18.58 £22.14 £14.70
% change year-on-year -16.07% +50.61% -19.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,362 1,953 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.22% 16.14% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,249 1,293 1,714
10th Percentile £350 £317 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -4.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 66
10th Percentile £19.35 £20.63 £13.49
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.39 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.89%
75th Percentile £48.21 £41.82 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £60.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +1.45% +44.96% -44.00%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SLA job vacancy trend in London

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in London

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SLA in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SLA in London

SLA
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Central London +3 29 £520 +3.23% 11
West London -28 7 £400 +72.97% 9
East London - 2 £400 - 2
South London -15 1 £215 -4.57% 1
North London - 1 - - 3
SLA
England

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.70%) Confluence
3 4 (2.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) Actimize
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.54%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.62%) Azure
2 32 (17.30%) AWS
3 26 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.95%) Datadog
4 11 (5.95%) GCP
4 11 (5.95%) SaaS
5 9 (4.86%) PaaS
6 8 (4.32%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.32%) IaaS
7 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.24%) dbt
8 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.70%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.16%) Serverless
11 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.57%) Firewall
2 10 (5.41%) VPN
3 9 (4.86%) SAN
4 8 (4.32%) DHCP
4 8 (4.32%) DNS
5 7 (3.78%) Network Security
5 7 (3.78%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.78%) WAN
5 7 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (3.24%) VLAN
7 3 (1.62%) 3GPP
7 3 (1.62%) BGP
7 3 (1.62%) Broadband
7 3 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.62%) LAN
7 3 (1.62%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.62%) OSPF
8 2 (1.08%) SSL
8 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.24%) Power BI
3 4 (2.16%) MySQL
3 4 (2.16%) Tableau
4 3 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.54%) GIS
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.54%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) JIRA
2 7 (3.78%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.16%) GitLab
3 4 (2.16%) Maven
4 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.54%) WiX
General
1 60 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (30.81%) Finance
3 38 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.05%) Banking
5 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.95%) Legal
7 9 (4.86%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.32%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.24%) Local Government
9 6 (3.24%) Marketing
10 5 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Retail
12 3 (1.62%) Aviation
12 3 (1.62%) Billing
13 2 (1.08%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (12.97%) Analyst
2 22 (11.89%) Senior
3 16 (8.65%) Lead
4 12 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (5.95%) Support Engineer
6 10 (5.41%) Service Analyst
7 9 (4.86%) Consultant
7 9 (4.86%) IT Support
8 8 (4.32%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.32%) IT Manager
8 8 (4.32%) Service Manager
9 7 (3.78%) Architect
9 7 (3.78%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.78%) Senior Security Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Change Manager
10 6 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.24%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Developer
10 6 (3.24%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.24%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.78%) REST
2 6 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.24%) Web Services
3 5 (2.70%) .NET
3 5 (2.70%) Spring
4 4 (2.16%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.16%) Bootstrap
4 4 (2.16%) CSS
4 4 (2.16%) J2EE
4 4 (2.16%) jQuery
4 4 (2.16%) Sass
4 4 (2.16%) Spring MVC
5 2 (1.08%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.08%) Middleware
5 2 (1.08%) RESTful
5 2 (1.08%) XML
6 1 (0.54%) JMS
6 1 (0.54%) SAML
6 1 (0.54%) SOAP
6 1 (0.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.49%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.32%) CMDB
4 8 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.70%) BYOD
6 5 (2.70%) IoT
7 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.16%) Equities
7 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.16%) PropTech
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.08%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.84%) Windows
2 13 (7.03%) Linux
3 8 (4.32%) Unix
4 5 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.16%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.14%) ITIL
2 46 (24.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (23.78%) Root Cause Analysis
4 43 (23.24%) ITSM
5 34 (18.38%) Change Management
5 34 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (16.22%) Service Management
8 29 (15.68%) Migration
9 28 (15.14%) Roadmaps
10 27 (14.59%) Service Delivery
11 26 (14.05%) Agile
12 23 (12.43%) CI/CD
13 21 (11.35%) Risk Management
14 18 (9.73%) Customer Service
15 17 (9.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (9.19%) Validation
16 16 (8.65%) DevOps
16 16 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (8.65%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.35%) SQL
2 10 (5.41%) Python
3 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.24%) Java
5 5 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.62%) Bicep
8 2 (1.08%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.54%) C++
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (12.97%) Degree
2 13 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (3.24%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.16%) CISA
5 4 (2.16%) MBA
5 4 (2.16%) RIBA
6 3 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.62%) CCA
6 3 (1.62%) CCNP
6 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.62%) CISSP
6 3 (1.62%) CRISC
7 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.32%) COBIT
3 8 (4.32%) PMO
4 7 (3.78%) GDPR
4 7 (3.78%) GRC
5 6 (3.24%) NIST
6 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.16%) QA
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) DICOM
8 1 (0.54%) HL7
8 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 20 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.24%) Docker
3 6 (3.24%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (7.03%) SCCM
2 7 (3.78%) Grafana
2 7 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.78%) Terraform
3 4 (2.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.62%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.62%) TeamSite
5 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 49 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 38 (20.54%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.11%) VMware
4 12 (6.49%) Oracle
5 10 (5.41%) Cisco
6 9 (4.86%) HP
6 9 (4.86%) IBM
7 7 (3.78%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.78%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.78%) Remedy
7 7 (3.78%) Tenable
7 7 (3.78%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.24%) Dell
8 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.70%) Apple
10 4 (2.16%) Splunk
10 4 (2.16%) Workday
11 3 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.62%) F5
11 3 (1.62%) Palo Alto