SLA Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.16% - 1.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% - 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £148
25th Percentile £163 - £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £163
75th Percentile £188 - £219
90th Percentile - - £249
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £175 - £163

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 42 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.37% 17.36% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 24 15
10th Percentile £313 £347 £196
25th Percentile £400 £419 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +32.29% -26.89%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £419
90th Percentile £539 £619 £500
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £378
% change year-on-year - +19.21% -21.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 5
10th Percentile £18.60 £16.48 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £21.15 £15.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.68% +92.16% -17.95%
75th Percentile - £42.03 £16.50
90th Percentile - £47.71 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £30.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year +127.68% +92.16% -17.95%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SLA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

SLA job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SLA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SLA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware