Systems and methods for quality of service management are provided. According to one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to receive, in a normalizing agent, one or more compute load parameters from one or more background compute processes executing on the one or more computer systems and one or more Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for one or more client compute processes executing on the one or more computer systems, convert the one or more compute load parameters to one or more normalized utilization metrics, and execute instructions that cause a processor to adjust a compute resource allocation dedicated to the one or more background compute processes based at least in part on the one or more normalized utilization metrics and the one or more QoS parameters.