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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 223 225
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 +43
Contract jobs citing SLA 184 141 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 1.03% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.08% 6.14% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 95 110
10th Percentile £200 £210 £173
25th Percentile £325 £231 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £525
90th Percentile £613 £675 £646
England median daily rate £450 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 21
10th Percentile £17.67 £22.32 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.07 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.67% +28.93%
75th Percentile £25.77 £43.25 £24.18
90th Percentile £38.58 £52.85 £51.75
England median hourly rate £18.79 £22.14 £15.54
% change year-on-year -15.13% +42.52% -14.76%

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 3,625 2,297 2,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.30% 16.83% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,425 1,534 1,626
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £800
England median daily rate £509 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.39% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 53
10th Percentile £20.97 £22.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £18.13
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +42.68% -38.66%
75th Percentile £44.75 £47.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.70 £62.53 £54.35
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% +26.80% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -8 24 £500 -3.85% 2
West London -16 10 £400 +60.00% 3
East London - 2 £400 -
North London - 2 £450 -
South London -18 1 £215 -4.57% 1
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 8 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Mule
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.54%) Actimize
3 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.91%) Azure
2 39 (21.20%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (13.04%) AWS
4 16 (8.70%) Datadog
5 14 (7.61%) Entra ID
6 12 (6.52%) SaaS
7 9 (4.89%) IaaS
7 9 (4.89%) PaaS
8 8 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.26%) dbt
9 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.72%) GCP
10 5 (2.72%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.72%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.17%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.07%) Firewall
2 12 (6.52%) DHCP
2 12 (6.52%) DNS
3 11 (5.98%) VPN
4 10 (5.43%) SAN
5 9 (4.89%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (3.80%) Network Security
6 7 (3.80%) VLAN
7 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.72%) WAN
9 4 (2.17%) LAN
9 4 (2.17%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.63%) 3GPP
10 3 (1.63%) BGP
10 3 (1.63%) Broadband
10 3 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (1.63%) NX-OS
10 3 (1.63%) OSPF
10 3 (1.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.26%) Power BI
3 5 (2.72%) MySQL
3 5 (2.72%) Tableau
4 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.09%) Big Data
5 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.54%) GIS
6 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.54%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (14.13%) JIRA
2 8 (4.35%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.17%) GitLab
3 4 (2.17%) Maven
4 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.09%) Git
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.54%) WiX
General
1 71 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.89%) Finance
3 45 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.50%) Banking
5 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.89%) Legal
8 7 (3.80%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.26%) Marketing
9 6 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.26%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.72%) Local Government
10 5 (2.72%) Retail
11 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.63%) Aviation
12 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Back Office
14 1 (0.54%) Electronics
14 1 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (16.30%) Analyst
2 22 (11.96%) Senior
3 18 (9.78%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (7.61%) IT Support
5 12 (6.52%) Service Manager
6 11 (5.98%) IT Engineer
6 11 (5.98%) Lead
7 9 (4.89%) Applications Support
7 9 (4.89%) Consultant
8 8 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (4.35%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.80%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.80%) ITIL Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) Senior Security Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Service Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.72%) .NET
1 5 (2.72%) Jakarta EE
1 5 (2.72%) REST
1 5 (2.72%) Web Services
2 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.17%) Bootstrap
2 4 (2.17%) CSS
2 4 (2.17%) jQuery
2 4 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.17%) Sass
2 4 (2.17%) Spring
2 4 (2.17%) Spring MVC
3 3 (1.63%) RESTful
3 3 (1.63%) XML
4 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.09%) JSON
4 2 (1.09%) SOAP
5 1 (0.54%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.54%) RAML
5 1 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.87%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.89%) CMDB
4 8 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.72%) IoT
7 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.17%) BYOD
8 4 (2.17%) iPhone
8 4 (2.17%) PropTech
8 4 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.09%) iPad
10 2 (1.09%) Pricing Data
10 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.09%) Social Media
10 2 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.17%) Windows
2 15 (8.15%) Windows 10
3 8 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.80%) Linux
5 4 (2.17%) Unix
6 3 (1.63%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.09%) Android
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (39.13%) ITIL
2 48 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (23.91%) ITSM
4 43 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (22.28%) Root Cause Analysis
6 38 (20.65%) Change Management
7 36 (19.57%) Service Management
8 33 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (17.39%) Customer Service
10 28 (15.22%) Migration
10 28 (15.22%) Service Delivery
11 26 (14.13%) Roadmaps
12 25 (13.59%) Agile
13 23 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (11.41%) Risk Management
14 21 (11.41%) Validation
15 19 (10.33%) CI/CD
16 18 (9.78%) Vulnerability Management
17 16 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
17 16 (8.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.41%) SQL
2 17 (9.24%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.43%) Python
4 5 (2.72%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.17%) Java
6 3 (1.63%) Bash
6 3 (1.63%) Bicep
7 1 (0.54%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.54%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.54%) COBOL
7 1 (0.54%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.54%) Groovy
7 1 (0.54%) Korn
7 1 (0.54%) Perl
7 1 (0.54%) RPG
7 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (10.87%) Degree
2 12 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.17%) PMP
6 4 (2.17%) RIBA
7 3 (1.63%) CISSP
7 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.63%) CRISC
7 3 (1.63%) MBA
8 2 (1.09%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CCNP
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.80%) COBIT
3 7 (3.80%) GRC
4 6 (3.26%) GDPR
4 6 (3.26%) NIST
5 5 (2.72%) PMO
6 4 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.09%) ISO 31000
8 2 (1.09%) QA
8 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.54%) DICOM
9 1 (0.54%) GxP
9 1 (0.54%) HL7
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.72%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (7.07%) SCCM
3 8 (4.35%) Grafana
4 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.72%) Terraform
6 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.63%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.54%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 62 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 43 (23.37%) ServiceNow
3 16 (8.70%) VMware
4 9 (4.89%) Cisco
4 9 (4.89%) Oracle
5 8 (4.35%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.35%) Apple
5 8 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.35%) Tenable
6 7 (3.80%) HP
6 7 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.80%) Zscaler
7 5 (2.72%) IBM
8 4 (2.17%) Dell
8 4 (2.17%) Remedy
8 4 (2.17%) Splunk
9 3 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.63%) F5
9 3 (1.63%) SAP
10 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto