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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 236 191
Rank change year-on-year -16 -45 +91
Contract jobs citing SLA 169 112 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.88% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.30% 5.62% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 77 133
10th Percentile £231 £139 £150
25th Percentile £397 £213 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £525
90th Percentile £644 £675 £635
England median daily rate £450 £255 £330
% change year-on-year +76.47% -22.73% +12.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 24
10th Percentile £18.94 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.63 £19.53
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -7.17% +23.03%
75th Percentile £26.11 £23.97 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.14 £32.01 £53.68
England median hourly rate £18.50 £22.27 £14.60
% change year-on-year -16.93% +52.53% -21.08%

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 3,187 1,992 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.15% 15.71% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 1,318 1,770
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 62
10th Percentile £19.76 £19.44 £12.70
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.27 £17.85
Median hourly rate £27.75 £34.75 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +40.40% -43.57%
75th Percentile £50.25 £57.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £86.37 £57.13
England median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £21.12
% change year-on-year -12.00% +64.57% -50.32%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 27 £520 +4.00% 7
West London -27 7 £463 +105.56% 4
East London -2 3 £293 -41.50% 1
South London -10 3 £432 +92.16% 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 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.96%) Confluence
3 4 (2.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.55%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.59%) Actimize
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.57%) Azure
2 27 (15.98%) AWS
3 20 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.51%) GCP
5 10 (5.92%) Datadog
5 10 (5.92%) SaaS
6 9 (5.33%) PaaS
7 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.73%) IaaS
8 6 (3.55%) dbt
8 6 (3.55%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.96%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.37%) Serverless
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.78%) OCI
11 3 (1.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.06%) Firewall
2 10 (5.92%) Network Security
2 10 (5.92%) SAN
2 10 (5.92%) SD-WAN
2 10 (5.92%) VPN
2 10 (5.92%) WAN
3 6 (3.55%) BGP
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (3.55%) DHCP
3 6 (3.55%) DNS
3 6 (3.55%) LAN
3 6 (3.55%) NX-OS
3 6 (3.55%) OSPF
3 6 (3.55%) VLAN
3 6 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.37%) Broadband
5 3 (1.78%) 3GPP
6 2 (1.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.55%) Power BI
3 4 (2.37%) MySQL
4 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.59%) GIS
6 1 (0.59%) Metadata
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.59%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.28%) JIRA
2 7 (4.14%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.37%) GitLab
3 4 (2.37%) Maven
3 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.59%) WiX
General
1 54 (31.95%) Finance
2 47 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.38%) Banking
5 12 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.51%) Legal
7 10 (5.92%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.33%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.73%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.14%) Retail
11 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (3.55%) Local Government
12 5 (2.96%) Marketing
13 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.78%) Aviation
14 3 (1.78%) Back Office
14 3 (1.78%) Billing
14 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (14.20%) Senior
2 22 (13.02%) Analyst
3 14 (8.28%) Lead
4 10 (5.92%) Service Analyst
5 9 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (5.33%) Consultant
6 8 (4.73%) Architect
6 8 (4.73%) IT Engineer
7 7 (4.14%) Developer
7 7 (4.14%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.14%) Service Manager
8 6 (3.55%) Change Manager
8 6 (3.55%) Senior Security Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Site Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (2.96%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (2.96%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (2.96%) Senior IT Engineer
9 5 (2.96%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.14%) REST
2 6 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.55%) Web Services
3 5 (2.96%) Spring
4 4 (2.37%) .NET
4 4 (2.37%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.37%) Bootstrap
4 4 (2.37%) CSS
4 4 (2.37%) J2EE
4 4 (2.37%) jQuery
4 4 (2.37%) Sass
4 4 (2.37%) Spring MVC
5 3 (1.78%) Middleware
6 2 (1.18%) RESTful
6 2 (1.18%) XML
7 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.59%) JSON
7 1 (0.59%) OAuth
7 1 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.14%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (3.55%) Equities
5 6 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.96%) CMDB
6 5 (2.96%) IoT
7 4 (2.37%) BYOD
7 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.37%) PropTech
8 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.78%) Derivative
8 3 (1.78%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.20%) Windows
2 13 (7.69%) Linux
3 8 (4.73%) Unix
4 3 (1.78%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.59%) ITIL
2 42 (24.85%) Root Cause Analysis
3 37 (21.89%) ITSM
3 37 (21.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (18.34%) Change Management
5 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (15.98%) Migration
7 25 (14.79%) Roadmaps
8 24 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (14.20%) Service Delivery
9 22 (13.02%) Agile
9 22 (13.02%) Service Management
10 21 (12.43%) Risk Management
11 20 (11.83%) CI/CD
12 17 (10.06%) Problem Management
12 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (9.47%) Customer Service
14 15 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (8.88%) Incident Management
14 15 (8.88%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.06%) SQL
2 12 (7.10%) Python
3 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.55%) Java
5 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.78%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.59%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Degree
2 11 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.37%) CISA
5 4 (2.37%) MBA
5 4 (2.37%) RIBA
6 3 (1.78%) CCA
6 3 (1.78%) CCNP
6 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.78%) CISSP
6 3 (1.78%) CRISC
6 3 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.14%) GRC
2 7 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.14%) PMO
3 6 (3.55%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) NIST
4 4 (2.37%) COBIT
4 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.37%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) DICOM
6 1 (0.59%) HL7
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 18 (10.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.55%) Docker
2 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (7.69%) SCCM
2 12 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.14%) Terraform
4 6 (3.55%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.55%) Grafana
5 4 (2.37%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) TeamSite
7 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) SCOM
8 1 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.59%) WMI
Vendors
1 38 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.34%) ServiceNow
3 13 (7.69%) Oracle
4 12 (7.10%) VMware
5 11 (6.51%) Cisco
6 10 (5.92%) IBM
7 9 (5.33%) Remedy
8 8 (4.73%) HP
9 7 (4.14%) AppDynamics
9 7 (4.14%) Dynatrace
9 7 (4.14%) Tenable
9 7 (4.14%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.55%) Dell
10 6 (3.55%) Splunk
11 5 (2.96%) F5
12 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.37%) Workday
13 3 (1.78%) BMC
13 3 (1.78%) CheckPoint