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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 254 204
Rank change year-on-year +7 -50 +65
Contract jobs citing SLA 156 99 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.77% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.09% 5.09% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 64 122
10th Percentile £260 £139 £150
25th Percentile £400 £206 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +55.31% -28.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £561 £525 £540
90th Percentile £714 £593 £675
England median daily rate £443 £250 £350
% change year-on-year +77.00% -28.57% +24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 19
10th Percentile £18.94 £19.99 £15.90
25th Percentile - £21.76 £18.43
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -28.57% +51.81%
75th Percentile £26.11 £25.72 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.14 £33.85 £55.35
England median hourly rate £18.50 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -16.44% +38.38% -13.51%

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 3,064 1,946 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.87% 15.07% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 1,280 1,762
10th Percentile £350 £311 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £685
90th Percentile £750 £789 £780
England median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.47% -4.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 61
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.72 £22.27 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +48.63% -30.49%
75th Percentile £57.13 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £93.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.66% +30.00% -37.50%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -7 25 £525 +8.25% 20
West London -24 4 £525 +133.33% 11
East London +3 3 £593 +18.50% 5
South London -12 3 £432 +99.94% 4
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 11 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (2.56%) Confluence
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.21%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.28%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.67%) Azure
2 21 (13.46%) AWS
3 19 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (7.05%) GCP
5 9 (5.77%) Datadog
5 9 (5.77%) SaaS
6 8 (5.13%) PaaS
7 7 (4.49%) IaaS
8 6 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.56%) Serverless
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.92%) dbt
11 3 (1.92%) Prefect
11 3 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.62%) Firewall
2 10 (6.41%) Network Security
2 10 (6.41%) VPN
3 9 (5.77%) SD-WAN
3 9 (5.77%) WAN
4 8 (5.13%) SAN
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (3.85%) DHCP
5 6 (3.85%) DNS
5 6 (3.85%) LAN
5 6 (3.85%) NX-OS
5 6 (3.85%) OSPF
5 6 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.21%) VLAN
7 4 (2.56%) Broadband
8 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.64%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.85%) Power BI
3 4 (2.56%) MySQL
4 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.64%) GIS
5 1 (0.64%) Metadata
5 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.64%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.05%) JIRA
2 6 (3.85%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.56%) Maven
3 4 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.92%) GitLab
4 3 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.64%) Metasploit
General
1 55 (35.26%) Finance
2 47 (30.13%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.67%) Banking
4 24 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.05%) Legal
6 10 (6.41%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.41%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.13%) Retail
8 7 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.85%) Marketing
10 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.21%) Local Government
11 4 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.92%) Aviation
12 3 (1.92%) Billing
13 2 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (14.74%) Senior
2 16 (10.26%) Analyst
3 15 (9.62%) Lead
4 10 (6.41%) Consultant
5 8 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (5.13%) Developer
5 8 (5.13%) IT Engineer
5 8 (5.13%) Service Analyst
5 8 (5.13%) Service Manager
6 7 (4.49%) Site Engineer
7 6 (3.85%) Architect
7 6 (3.85%) Change Manager
7 6 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (3.85%) Security Engineer
7 6 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (3.21%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.21%) Programme Manager
8 5 (3.21%) Senior Security Engineer
8 5 (3.21%) Service Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) REST
2 6 (3.85%) Web Services
3 5 (3.21%) Spring
4 4 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.56%) Bootstrap
4 4 (2.56%) CSS
4 4 (2.56%) J2EE
4 4 (2.56%) jQuery
4 4 (2.56%) Sass
4 4 (2.56%) Spring MVC
5 3 (1.92%) Middleware
5 3 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.28%) RESTful
7 1 (0.64%) .NET
7 1 (0.64%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.64%) OAuth
7 1 (0.64%) SAML
7 1 (0.64%) SOAP
7 1 (0.64%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.64%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.05%) Data Centre
1 11 (7.05%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.85%) Equities
4 6 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.21%) IoT
6 4 (2.56%) BYOD
6 4 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.56%) CMDB
6 4 (2.56%) Derivative
6 4 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (2.56%) PropTech
7 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.46%) Windows
2 12 (7.69%) Linux
3 8 (5.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.28%) Android
5 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.49%) ITIL
2 34 (21.79%) ITSM
3 33 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (20.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 28 (17.95%) Change Management
6 27 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (14.74%) Service Delivery
8 21 (13.46%) Migration
8 21 (13.46%) Roadmaps
9 20 (12.82%) Agile
9 20 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (12.82%) Risk Management
10 19 (12.18%) CI/CD
10 19 (12.18%) Customer Service
10 19 (12.18%) Service Management
11 16 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (10.26%) Problem Management
12 15 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (8.97%) Incident Management
14 13 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.05%) Python
1 11 (7.05%) SQL
2 7 (4.49%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.85%) Java
4 5 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.56%) C++
5 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.64%) Bash
6 1 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (14.74%) Degree
2 15 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.56%) CISA
5 4 (2.56%) RIBA
6 3 (1.92%) CCA
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.28%) CCNP
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.28%) CISSP
7 2 (1.28%) CRISC
7 2 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.28%) MBA
7 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.49%) PMO
3 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.85%) GDPR
3 6 (3.85%) GRC
4 5 (3.21%) NIST
5 4 (2.56%) COBIT
5 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.92%) QA
7 2 (1.28%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.85%) Docker
3 3 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (7.05%) SCCM
3 6 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.85%) Terraform
4 3 (1.92%) Grafana
4 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.92%) TeamSite
5 2 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.28%) Puppet
5 2 (1.28%) SCOM
6 1 (0.64%) Ansible
6 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.64%) WMI
6 1 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.95%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.05%) Oracle
4 10 (6.41%) Cisco
4 10 (6.41%) IBM
5 9 (5.77%) Remedy
5 9 (5.77%) VMware
6 7 (4.49%) HP
6 7 (4.49%) Tenable
6 7 (4.49%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.85%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.85%) Dell
7 6 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.85%) Splunk
8 5 (3.21%) F5
9 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.56%) SAP
9 4 (2.56%) Workday
10 3 (1.92%) Ariba
10 3 (1.92%) BMC