SLA Contracts in West London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 38 50
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing SLA 9 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.46% 1.39% 2.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.68% 9.80% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £145 - £206
25th Percentile £206 - £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £250 £300
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +9.19%
75th Percentile £238 £292 £475
90th Percentile £240 £368 £625
London median daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -20.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Median hourly rate £22.27 £23.80 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +22.05% -5.40%
London median hourly rate £22.27 £23.99 £19.22
% change year-on-year -7.17% +24.85% -34.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 38 51 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 18.81% 14.17% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 85
10th Percentile £170 £212 £350
25th Percentile £208 £253 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £406 £475 £700
90th Percentile £631 £568 £838
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.37 £38.90
25th Percentile £17.41 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £20.20 £18.13 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -71.67% +201.53%
75th Percentile £22.27 £23.80 £70.00
90th Percentile - £45.52 £84.00
London median hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.82% -20.33% -30.90%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in West London

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in West London.

Daily rate trend for SLA in West London

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in West London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in West London

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in West London.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in West London

SLA
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Hammersmith - 6 £225 -
Wembley -2 2 - -
Hounslow +11 1 £55 -83.40% 2
SLA
London

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Exchequer
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Local Government
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Applications Support
3 5 (55.56%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (55.56%) Support Analyst
4 4 (44.44%) Project Analyst
4 4 (44.44%) Project Support Analyst
5 2 (22.22%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) IT Support
6 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
6 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) ITSM
1 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
1 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
1 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
1 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AAT
1 2 (22.22%) CCAB
1 2 (22.22%) CIPFA
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow