SLA Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 27 15
Rank change year-on-year -36 -12 +78
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.62% 0.81% 3.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.38% 10.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £114 - -
25th Percentile £123 £308 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £136 £315 £480
Median % change year-on-year -56.70% -34.38% +348.60%
75th Percentile £150 £323 £495
90th Percentile £158 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £365 £225 £418
% change year-on-year +62.22% -46.11% +51.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 84 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 25.85% 8.06% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 9 1
10th Percentile £291 £306 -
25th Percentile £492 £308 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £315 £480
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £369 £495
90th Percentile £587 £505 -
West Midlands median daily rate £511 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £12.33 - -
25th Percentile £12.52 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £15.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.44% -38.22% +25.00%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Shropshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Telford -37 2 £136 -56.70% 2
SLA
West Midlands

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow