SLA Contract Job Trends in West London

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing SLA 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.74% 2.16% 2.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 16.67% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile - £170 £166
25th Percentile £225 £189 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £240 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -49.47% +111.11%
75th Percentile £293 £416 £544
90th Percentile £323 £510 £580
London median daily rate £450 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +50.00% -36.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year - +6.77% -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.67% +19.00% -56.04%

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 48 30 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 16.44% 12.93% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 21 55
10th Percentile £220 £220 £320
25th Percentile £280 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -4.76% +2.99%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £588 £645
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £31.94 - £24.17
25th Percentile £32.62 - £26.98
Median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 £31.67
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.84% +97.91%
75th Percentile £38.25 £25.24 £36.35
90th Percentile £44.10 £26.10 £39.17
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +3.70% +18.42%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

SLA job vacancy trend in West London

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in West London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in West London

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SLA

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 4 November 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
Hounslow +7 4 £250 +4.17% 2
Hillingdon - 2 £293 -
Hammersmith - 1 £238 - 1
SLA
London

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VoIP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) DMVPN
3 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
3 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Support
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) CCTV Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) CCTV
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Apple
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds