SLA Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 3.51% 1.92% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 16.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £365 £333 £418
% change year-on-year +9.77% -20.36% +45.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.12 £14.70 -
% change year-on-year +9.63% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 24.56% 11.54% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile - £575 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +91.78%
75th Percentile - £688 £725
90th Percentile £850 £710 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.75 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% -23.64% +68.40%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Hereford - 1 £485 - 1
SLA
West Midlands

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk