SLA Contract Job Trends in the Highlands

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Scotland > Highlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Highlands requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Highlands 6.67% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Scotland median daily rate £447 £192 £282
% change year-on-year +132.81% -31.91% +65.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Highlands

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 the Highlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Highlands 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Highlands

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

SLA job vacancy trend in the Highlands

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in the Highlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Highlands citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Highlands citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in the Highlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Highlands citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Highlands citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in the Highlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Highlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Inverness - 2 £449 - 1
SLA
Scotland

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Highlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) CyberArk