Service-Level Objective Contracts in Edinburgh

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 61 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £611 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% - -
75th Percentile £438 £634 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £623 -
% change year-on-year -31.73% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in Edinburgh

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in Edinburgh

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium