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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 225 203
Rank change year-on-year -23 -22 +65
Contract jobs citing SLA 180 124 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.01% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.27% 6.23% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 83 129
10th Percentile £209 £211 £170
25th Percentile £350 £227 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £523 £539 £525
90th Percentile £600 £675 £629
England median daily rate £455 £325 £340
% change year-on-year +39.85% -4.41% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 23
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.62 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.00 £18.07
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -5.46% +28.93%
75th Percentile £26.11 £42.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £28.45 £57.00 £53.15
England median hourly rate £18.58 £22.21 £14.49
% change year-on-year -16.31% +53.24% -20.49%

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 3,416 1,989 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 16.25% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 1,310 1,712
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £769 £800
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 65
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.51 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.00%
75th Percentile £41.68 £52.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.05 £73.36 £56.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £23.90
% change year-on-year +1.45% +44.35% -43.76%

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 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 11 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 11 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 -8 25 £501 -0.65% 6
West London -28 7 £400 +68.42% 6
East London - 2 £400 - 3
South London -15 1 £215 -4.57%
North London - 1 - - 2
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 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 4 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.56%) Actimize
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.56%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.67%) Azure
2 27 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (14.44%) AWS
4 11 (6.11%) Datadog
4 11 (6.11%) SaaS
5 10 (5.56%) GCP
6 9 (5.00%) PaaS
7 8 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.44%) IaaS
8 7 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.33%) dbt
9 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.22%) Serverless
12 3 (1.67%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.78%) Firewall
2 10 (5.56%) VPN
3 9 (5.00%) SAN
4 8 (4.44%) DHCP
4 8 (4.44%) DNS
5 7 (3.89%) Network Security
5 7 (3.89%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.89%) WAN
5 7 (3.89%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (3.33%) VLAN
7 3 (1.67%) 3GPP
7 3 (1.67%) BGP
7 3 (1.67%) Broadband
7 3 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.67%) LAN
7 3 (1.67%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.67%) OSPF
8 2 (1.11%) SSL
8 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) Power BI
3 4 (2.22%) MySQL
3 4 (2.22%) Tableau
4 3 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) GIS
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.78%) JIRA
2 7 (3.89%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.22%) GitLab
3 4 (2.22%) Maven
4 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.56%) WiX
General
1 61 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.11%) Finance
3 38 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.89%) Banking
5 15 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.11%) Legal
7 9 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.89%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.33%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.33%) Local Government
10 6 (3.33%) Marketing
11 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.22%) Retail
13 3 (1.67%) Aviation
13 3 (1.67%) Billing
14 2 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (13.89%) Analyst
2 22 (12.22%) Senior
3 16 (8.89%) Lead
4 12 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 10 (5.56%) Consultant
5 10 (5.56%) IT Support
5 10 (5.56%) Service Analyst
6 9 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.44%) IT Manager
8 7 (3.89%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.89%) Senior Security Engineer
8 7 (3.89%) Service Manager
9 6 (3.33%) Change Manager
9 6 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) Programme Manager
9 6 (3.33%) Service Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.78%) Desktop Support
10 5 (2.78%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (3.33%) REST
1 6 (3.33%) Web Services
2 5 (2.78%) .NET
2 5 (2.78%) Spring
3 4 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.22%) Bootstrap
3 4 (2.22%) CSS
3 4 (2.22%) J2EE
3 4 (2.22%) jQuery
3 4 (2.22%) Sass
3 4 (2.22%) Spring MVC
4 2 (1.11%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.11%) Middleware
4 2 (1.11%) RESTful
4 2 (1.11%) XML
5 1 (0.56%) JMS
5 1 (0.56%) SAML
5 1 (0.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 12 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.44%) CMDB
3 8 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.78%) BYOD
5 5 (2.78%) IoT
6 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.22%) PropTech
7 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.67%) Equities
7 3 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.11%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.89%) Windows
2 12 (6.67%) Linux
3 7 (3.89%) Unix
4 5 (2.78%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.89%) ITIL
2 45 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 41 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (21.11%) ITSM
5 35 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.89%) Change Management
7 30 (16.67%) Service Management
8 29 (16.11%) Migration
9 28 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (15.56%) Roadmaps
10 27 (15.00%) Service Delivery
11 26 (14.44%) Agile
12 21 (11.67%) CI/CD
13 20 (11.11%) Customer Service
13 20 (11.11%) Risk Management
14 17 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (9.44%) Validation
15 16 (8.89%) Regulatory Compliance
16 15 (8.33%) DevOps
16 15 (8.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.11%) SQL
2 8 (4.44%) Python
3 7 (3.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.33%) Java
5 5 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.67%) Bicep
6 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (12.78%) Degree
2 12 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.22%) CISA
5 4 (2.22%) MBA
5 4 (2.22%) RIBA
6 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.67%) CCA
6 3 (1.67%) CCNP
6 3 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.67%) CISSP
6 3 (1.67%) CRISC
7 2 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.44%) COBIT
3 8 (4.44%) PMO
4 7 (3.89%) GDPR
4 7 (3.89%) GRC
5 6 (3.33%) NIST
6 4 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.22%) QA
7 2 (1.11%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) DICOM
8 1 (0.56%) HL7
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 21 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.78%) Docker
5 4 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (7.22%) SCCM
2 7 (3.89%) Grafana
3 6 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.33%) Terraform
4 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.11%) TeamSite
7 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 49 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.89%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.33%) VMware
4 13 (7.22%) Oracle
5 10 (5.56%) Cisco
6 9 (5.00%) HP
7 7 (3.89%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.89%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.89%) IBM
7 7 (3.89%) Tenable
7 7 (3.89%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.33%) Apple
8 6 (3.33%) Dell
8 6 (3.33%) Remedy
8 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.22%) Splunk
9 4 (2.22%) Workday
10 3 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.67%) F5
10 3 (1.67%) Palo Alto