Service-Level Objective Contracts in England

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Service-Level Objective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 630 719
Rank change year-on-year +101 +89 -105
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 8 32 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.064% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.071% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 38
10th Percentile £518 £431 £517
25th Percentile £525 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £775
90th Percentile £583 £700 £786
UK median daily rate £623 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +18.57% -25.00% +23.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Service-Level Objective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service-Level Objective in England.

Hourly rate trend for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
London +78 6 £575 +4.55% 4
North of England +30 2 £525 +20.00% 3
North West +18 2 £525 +20.00% 2
Service-Level Objective
UK

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) HBase
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Site Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (75.00%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Observability
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Business Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) DAMA
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Opsgenie
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (75.00%) New Relic
1 6 (75.00%) PagerDuty
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 5 (62.50%) Salesforce
2 5 (62.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft