Service-Level Objective Contracts in London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Service-Level Objective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 461 563
Rank change year-on-year +72 +102 -92
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.084% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.092% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 34
10th Percentile - £433 £528
25th Percentile £563 £463 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £775
90th Percentile - £730 £801
England median daily rate £550 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Service-Level Objective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Service-Level Objective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service-Level Objective in London.

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service-Level Objective within the London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Central London +39 1 - -
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Site Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Opsgenie
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (100.00%) New Relic
1 6 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Adobe
2 5 (83.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (83.33%) SAP