Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Service-Level Objective falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 732 470 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 85.12% 89.87% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 337 417
10th Percentile £306 £190 £250
25th Percentile £405 £381 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £575
90th Percentile £656 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.07 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.85 £18.35 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -32.66% +88.74%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.26 £18.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +22.75% -21.17% +29.87%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service-Level Objective relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Service-Level Objective.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Service-Level Objective

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CMDB
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AIOps
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) ChatOps
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk