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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 240 205
Rank change year-on-year -5 -35 +66
Contract jobs citing SLA 195 134 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.99% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.34% 5.93% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 91 117
10th Percentile £207 £206 £180
25th Percentile £338 £231 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £525
90th Percentile £600 £675 £633
England median daily rate £450 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +28.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 20
10th Percentile £18.07 £22.00 £16.23
25th Percentile £20.24 - £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +5.67% +25.73%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £26.32
90th Percentile £29.04 £53.75 £51.75
England median hourly rate £18.73 £22.14 £14.97
% change year-on-year -15.41% +47.90% -18.48%

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 3,654 2,260 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.40% 16.71% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,456 1,502 1,667
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £799
England median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 33 58
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.28 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +44.96% -10.19%
75th Percentile £41.80 £48.00 £38.06
90th Percentile £62.00 £63.35 £52.73
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 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
Central London -9 22 £500 -3.57% 5
West London -16 8 £400 +60.00% 6
East London - 2 £400 -
North London - 2 £450 -
South London -12 1 £215 -4.57%
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 6 (3.08%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Mule
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.51%) Actimize
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.59%) Azure
2 33 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (13.85%) AWS
4 16 (8.21%) Datadog
5 13 (6.67%) SaaS
6 11 (5.64%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.13%) PaaS
8 9 (4.62%) IaaS
9 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.10%) GCP
10 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.08%) dbt
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.05%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.05%) Serverless
12 4 (2.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.18%) Firewall
2 11 (5.64%) DHCP
2 11 (5.64%) DNS
2 11 (5.64%) VPN
3 10 (5.13%) SAN
4 8 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (3.59%) VLAN
6 6 (3.08%) Network Security
7 5 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.56%) WAN
8 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.54%) 3GPP
9 3 (1.54%) BGP
9 3 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.54%) LAN
9 3 (1.54%) NX-OS
9 3 (1.54%) OSPF
9 3 (1.54%) WinSCP
10 2 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.56%) Power BI
2 5 (2.56%) Tableau
3 4 (2.05%) MySQL
3 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.51%) GIS
6 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (12.82%) JIRA
2 8 (4.10%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.05%) GitLab
3 4 (2.05%) Maven
4 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.03%) Git
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.51%) WiX
General
1 71 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 61 (31.28%) Finance
3 47 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.38%) Banking
5 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.64%) Legal
7 10 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.62%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.59%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (3.08%) Marketing
11 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.56%) Retail
13 4 (2.05%) Local Government
13 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.54%) Aviation
14 3 (1.54%) Billing
15 2 (1.03%) Back Office
15 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (14.36%) Analyst
2 21 (10.77%) Senior
3 15 (7.69%) Lead
3 15 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.18%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (6.67%) IT Support
6 11 (5.64%) IT Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Consultant
7 10 (5.13%) Service Manager
8 9 (4.62%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.10%) Applications Support Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.59%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Senior Security Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.08%) Developer
11 6 (3.08%) ITIL Manager
11 6 (3.08%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.08%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) REST
2 6 (3.08%) Web Services
3 5 (2.56%) .NET
3 5 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.56%) Spring
4 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.05%) Bootstrap
4 4 (2.05%) CSS
4 4 (2.05%) J2EE
4 4 (2.05%) jQuery
4 4 (2.05%) Sass
4 4 (2.05%) Spring MVC
5 3 (1.54%) Middleware
5 3 (1.54%) RESTful
5 3 (1.54%) XML
6 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.03%) JSON
6 2 (1.03%) SOAP
7 1 (0.51%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.51%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.62%) CMDB
4 8 (4.10%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.56%) IoT
7 5 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.05%) BYOD
8 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.05%) iPhone
8 4 (2.05%) PropTech
9 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.54%) Equities
9 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.03%) iPad
10 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (23.08%) Windows
2 13 (6.67%) Linux
3 11 (5.64%) Windows 10
4 8 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.59%) Unix
6 3 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.03%) Android
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.92%) ITIL
2 47 (24.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (22.05%) ITSM
3 43 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (21.03%) Change Management
4 41 (21.03%) Root Cause Analysis
5 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (16.41%) Service Management
7 30 (15.38%) Migration
8 29 (14.87%) Service Delivery
9 28 (14.36%) Customer Service
10 27 (13.85%) Agile
11 26 (13.33%) Roadmaps
12 24 (12.31%) Risk Management
13 22 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (10.77%) CI/CD
14 21 (10.77%) Validation
15 18 (9.23%) Incident Management
16 17 (8.72%) Runbook
16 17 (8.72%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.31%) SQL
2 14 (7.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.13%) Python
4 6 (3.08%) Java
5 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.54%) Bash
6 3 (1.54%) Bicep
6 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.51%) COBOL
7 1 (0.51%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.51%) Groovy
7 1 (0.51%) Korn
7 1 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 23 (11.79%) Degree
2 12 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.05%) MBA
6 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.05%) PMP
6 4 (2.05%) RIBA
7 3 (1.54%) CCA
7 3 (1.54%) CCNP
7 3 (1.54%) CISA
7 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.54%) CISSP
7 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.54%) CRISC
7 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.10%) COBIT
3 8 (4.10%) PMO
4 7 (3.59%) GDPR
4 7 (3.59%) GRC
5 6 (3.08%) NIST
6 4 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.05%) QA
7 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.51%) DICOM
9 1 (0.51%) GxP
9 1 (0.51%) HL7
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.56%) Docker
5 4 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.18%) SCCM
3 8 (4.10%) Grafana
4 7 (3.59%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.08%) Terraform
6 4 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.54%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.03%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.51%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.51%) WMI
Vendors
1 61 (31.28%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.72%) VMware
4 12 (6.15%) Oracle
5 10 (5.13%) Cisco
6 9 (4.62%) HP
7 8 (4.10%) AppDynamics
7 8 (4.10%) Apple
7 8 (4.10%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.10%) IBM
7 8 (4.10%) Remedy
7 8 (4.10%) Tenable
7 8 (4.10%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.08%) Dell
10 4 (2.05%) SAP
10 4 (2.05%) Splunk
11 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.54%) F5
11 3 (1.54%) Juniper