SLA Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing SLA 5 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.69% 1.04% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.05% 6.42% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £264 £196 £162
25th Percentile £285 £218 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £423 £185
Median % change year-on-year -24.26% +128.38% -11.59%
75th Percentile £435 £588 £381
90th Percentile £504 £606 £494
Scotland median daily rate £350 £340 £293
% change year-on-year +2.94% +16.24% +53.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.83
75th Percentile - - £14.17
90th Percentile - - £14.37
Scotland median hourly rate - £18.27 £13.83
% change year-on-year - +32.10% +5.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 99 109 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.64% 16.15% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 83 119
10th Percentile £267 £280 £303
25th Percentile £392 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £538
90th Percentile £583 £600 £592
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £461
% change year-on-year - -2.28% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £15.27 £21.05 £13.43
25th Percentile £15.55 £24.89 £13.83
Median hourly rate £16.00 £31.52 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.24% +117.38% -61.26%
75th Percentile £39.25 £37.91 £31.12
90th Percentile £53.20 £41.59 £41.08
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +15.08%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Glasgow

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Glasgow

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SLA

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TETRA
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) HNC
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft