IFS Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

IFS
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring knowledge or experience of IFS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFS over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IFS AB.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IFS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.30% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £181 - -
25th Percentile £183 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
South West median daily rate £325 - -

All Vendors
Gloucestershire

IFS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 197 141 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 51.04% 38.74% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 88 78
10th Percentile £223 £363 £248
25th Percentile £396 £409 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -14.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £552 £603 £719
90th Percentile £650 £679 £775
South West median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.36% -5.83% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 21
10th Percentile £28.17 - £33.00
25th Percentile £31.59 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -18.80%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £90.45 - -
South West median hourly rate £23.54 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.79% +18.18% -15.38%

IFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

IFS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

IFS
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IFS

IFS
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFS in Gloucestershire

IFS
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Gloucester - 3 £325 -
IFS
South West

IFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Service Catalogue
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft