Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
South East > Buckinghamshire

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 261 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.40% 91.90% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 192 343
10th Percentile £229 £201 £275
25th Percentile £363 £396 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +5.32% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.85 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.40 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.32 £38.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +59.38% +45.45%
75th Percentile £29.61 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.08 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Milton Keynes - 1 - -
Service-Level Objective
South East

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform