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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 59 51
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing SLA 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.90% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.07% 3.70% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £134
25th Percentile £225 - £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 - £140
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £328 - £339
90th Percentile £341 - £458
South West median daily rate £295 £430 £500
% change year-on-year -31.40% -14.00% +150.00%

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 56 54 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.06% 12.11% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 23
10th Percentile £225 £266 £272
25th Percentile £322 £361 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -10.23% +37.50%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £628
90th Percentile £700 £668 £765
South West median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - - £58.58
25th Percentile - £28.00 £73.32
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -34.05% +42.94%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £83.88
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +20.37%

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
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
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 19 September 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 - 6 £250 - 3
Cheltenham +23 1 £295 - 2
Filton - 1 £350 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) VoIP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Support
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) IT Support
4 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) PC Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Android
3 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM
2 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
1 2 (22.22%) vMotion
1 2 (22.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow
2 5 (55.56%) Remedy
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) VMware