SLA Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 3.23% - 3.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% - 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - £680
Scotland median daily rate £440 £189 £282
% change year-on-year +133.11% -33.07% +61.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.71
Scotland median hourly rate - £18.51 £17.36
% change year-on-year - +6.66% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6 0 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 19.35% - 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile - - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.54%
75th Percentile - - £591
90th Percentile - - £630
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £457
% change year-on-year -0.67% -1.48% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.71
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £18.27
% change year-on-year +82.82% +49.70% -19.46%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
East Kilbride - 1 - - 1
SLA
Scotland

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat