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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 233 206
Rank change year-on-year -14 -27 +78
Contract jobs citing SLA 187 124 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.95% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.29% 5.80% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 82 118
10th Percentile £206 £210 £179
25th Percentile £338 £231 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -3.13% +12.68%
75th Percentile £522 £539 £525
90th Percentile £600 £675 £631
England median daily rate £450 £363 £350
% change year-on-year +24.14% +3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 23
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.24 - £18.07
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +5.67% +28.93%
75th Percentile - £44.25 £42.25
90th Percentile £29.04 £55.38 £53.35
England median hourly rate £18.79 £22.14 £14.70
% change year-on-year -15.13% +50.61% -19.95%

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 3,532 2,139 2,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.30% 16.47% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,367 1,417 1,695
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £759 £800
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 30 61
10th Percentile £19.09 £22.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.94 £25.15 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +44.96% -9.33%
75th Percentile £41.80 £50.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.50 £55.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £32.25 £24.31
% change year-on-year +8.53% +32.69% -42.81%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -13 22 £501 -2.34% 6
West London -21 7 £400 +60.00% 7
East London - 2 £400 - 2
North London - 2 £450 -
South London -8 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 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.67%) Confluence
2 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Actimize
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) Azure
2 30 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (14.97%) AWS
4 14 (7.49%) Datadog
5 12 (6.42%) SaaS
6 9 (4.81%) GCP
6 9 (4.81%) PaaS
7 8 (4.28%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.28%) IaaS
8 7 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.74%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.21%) dbt
10 5 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.14%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.49%) Firewall
2 10 (5.35%) VPN
3 9 (4.81%) SAN
4 8 (4.28%) DHCP
4 8 (4.28%) DNS
5 7 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (3.21%) Network Security
6 6 (3.21%) SD-WAN
6 6 (3.21%) VLAN
6 6 (3.21%) WAN
7 3 (1.60%) 3GPP
7 3 (1.60%) BGP
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.60%) LAN
7 3 (1.60%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.60%) OSPF
8 2 (1.07%) SSL
8 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.07%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.14%) MySQL
2 4 (2.14%) Tableau
3 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.60%) Power BI
3 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.53%) GIS
5 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.53%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.83%) JIRA
2 7 (3.74%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.14%) GitLab
3 4 (2.14%) Maven
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.53%) Git
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) WiX
General
1 66 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 59 (31.55%) Finance
3 43 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.97%) Banking
5 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.42%) Legal
7 9 (4.81%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.74%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.74%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.21%) Marketing
11 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.14%) Local Government
12 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.14%) Retail
13 3 (1.60%) Aviation
13 3 (1.60%) Billing
13 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.07%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (13.90%) Analyst
2 20 (10.70%) Senior
3 16 (8.56%) Lead
4 13 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (6.42%) Support Engineer
6 11 (5.88%) IT Support
7 10 (5.35%) Consultant
7 10 (5.35%) Service Manager
8 9 (4.81%) IT Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) IT Manager
9 8 (4.28%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.74%) Applications Support Analyst
10 7 (3.74%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Senior Security Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Desktop Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) ITIL Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Service Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.21%) REST
1 6 (3.21%) Web Services
2 5 (2.67%) .NET
2 5 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.67%) Spring
3 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.14%) Bootstrap
3 4 (2.14%) CSS
3 4 (2.14%) J2EE
3 4 (2.14%) jQuery
3 4 (2.14%) Sass
3 4 (2.14%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.60%) Middleware
5 2 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.07%) RESTful
5 2 (1.07%) XML
6 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.53%) JSON
6 1 (0.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.28%) CMDB
4 7 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.67%) IoT
7 4 (2.14%) BYOD
7 4 (2.14%) PropTech
7 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.60%) Equities
8 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.07%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.93%) Windows
2 13 (6.95%) Linux
3 8 (4.28%) Windows 10
3 8 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.74%) Unix
5 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.90%) ITIL
2 48 (25.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (22.46%) Change Management
3 42 (22.46%) Root Cause Analysis
4 41 (21.93%) ITSM
5 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (16.58%) Service Management
8 29 (15.51%) Agile
8 29 (15.51%) Service Delivery
9 28 (14.97%) Migration
10 26 (13.90%) Roadmaps
11 25 (13.37%) Customer Service
12 24 (12.83%) Risk Management
13 22 (11.76%) CI/CD
14 21 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (10.16%) Validation
16 17 (9.09%) DevOps
16 17 (9.09%) Incident Management
17 16 (8.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.23%) SQL
2 10 (5.35%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.81%) Python
4 6 (3.21%) Java
5 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.60%) Bash
6 3 (1.60%) Bicep
6 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.53%) COBOL
7 1 (0.53%) Groovy
7 1 (0.53%) Korn
7 1 (0.53%) RPG
Qualifications
1 23 (12.30%) Degree
2 12 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.14%) CISA
6 4 (2.14%) MBA
6 4 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.14%) PMP
6 4 (2.14%) RIBA
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) CCA
7 3 (1.60%) CCNP
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
7 3 (1.60%) CRISC
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.81%) COBIT
2 9 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.28%) GDPR
3 8 (4.28%) PMO
4 7 (3.74%) GRC
5 6 (3.21%) NIST
6 5 (2.67%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.14%) QA
8 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.07%) ISO 31000
9 2 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.53%) DICOM
10 1 (0.53%) HL7
10 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.21%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.67%) Docker
5 4 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.95%) SCCM
3 8 (4.28%) Grafana
4 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.21%) Terraform
6 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.60%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.07%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.53%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.53%) WMI
Vendors
1 55 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 38 (20.32%) ServiceNow
3 16 (8.56%) VMware
4 12 (6.42%) Oracle
5 11 (5.88%) Cisco
6 9 (4.81%) HP
7 8 (4.28%) Apple
7 8 (4.28%) IBM
7 8 (4.28%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.74%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.74%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.74%) Tenable
9 6 (3.21%) Dell
9 6 (3.21%) Remedy
10 4 (2.14%) Splunk
11 3 (1.60%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.60%) F5
11 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.60%) SAP