Service-Level Objective Contracts in the City of London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 112 126 177
Rank change year-on-year +14 +51 +14
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.050% 0.030%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £454 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -21.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in the City of London

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in the City of London

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in the City of London

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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