Service-Level Objective Contracts in Central London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 132 171
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +27
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.041% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.045% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £380 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.48%
75th Percentile £455 - £575
90th Percentile £455 - -
London median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in Central London

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in Central London

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in Central London

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +14 7 £454 - 1
Service-Level Objective
London

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) PaaS
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (42.86%) API Management
4 3 (42.86%) Chaos Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) GitOps
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow