SLA Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing SLA 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.01% 1.36% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% 8.70% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £210 - -
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +80.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £406 £250 £275
% change year-on-year +62.50% -9.09% -5.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 42 23 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 28.19% 15.65% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 12
10th Percentile £182 £295 £120
25th Percentile £222 £325 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -31.94% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £548 £488 £459
90th Percentile £713 £530 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £43.85 £64.38 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £76.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.55% +52.50% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £87.19 -
90th Percentile - £91.13 -
South East median hourly rate £17.48 £55.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year -68.22% +7.73% +143.12%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. 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
Kidlington -1 1 £200 -
Oxford - 1 £250 - 1
SLA
South East

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune