SLA Contracts in Gloucestershire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing SLA 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.47% - 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £134
25th Percentile £225 - £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £140
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile £275 - £339
90th Percentile £293 - £458
South West median daily rate £273 £275 £213
% change year-on-year -0.91% +29.41% -11.46%

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 30 61 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.35% 12.92% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 26
10th Percentile £225 £319 £225
25th Percentile £355 £444 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +36.67%
75th Percentile £681 £662 £647
90th Percentile £870 £723 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 11
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile - £28.00 £83.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -19.06% +51.64%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +18.18%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Gloucestershire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Gloucestershire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Gloucestershire

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 5 July 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 - 4 £250 - 3
Cheltenham - 1 £295 - 4
SLA
South West

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Support
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) PC Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (83.33%) Remedy