SLA Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing SLA 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.08% 1.25% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.90% 14.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £319 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £401 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% - -
75th Percentile £419 £401 -
90th Percentile £468 - -
South West median daily rate £275 £550 £330
% change year-on-year -50.00% +66.67% +73.68%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 58 27 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.63% 8.44% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 38
10th Percentile £380 £394 £360
25th Percentile £456 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £585
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -19.23% +46.25%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £706
90th Percentile - £625 £750
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -1.90% -3.67% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 16
10th Percentile £13.90 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.64 - £23.19
Median hourly rate £16.89 £75.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.48% +11.11% -18.98%
75th Percentile £35.96 - £83.40
90th Percentile £46.78 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -3.85% +33.33% -21.37%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Gloucestershire

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SLA

SLA
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 SLA within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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 -7 3 £325 -18.85% 2
Cheltenham -4 1 £500 - 1
SLA
South West

SLA
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 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) vMotion
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware