SLA Contract Job Trends in West Malling

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Kent > West Malling

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Malling requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Malling 22.22% - 22.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 66.67% - 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £467 - £454
25th Percentile £483 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +155.00%
75th Percentile £558 - £656
90th Percentile £576 - -
Kent median daily rate £575 £569 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% +3.36% +161.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Malling

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 Malling.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Malling 33.33% 33.33% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £478 - £396
25th Percentile £509 £533 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £619
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.69% +69.52%
75th Percentile £613 £598 £656
90th Percentile £628 - -
Kent median daily rate £525 £574 £536
% change year-on-year -8.50% +6.99% +46.92%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Malling

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

SLA job vacancy trend in West Malling

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in West Malling

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

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

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Malling 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware