Service-Level Objective Contracts in England

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 451 535 620
Rank change year-on-year +84 +85 +104
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 34 7 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.019% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.022% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 22
10th Percentile £267 £518 £434
25th Percentile £442 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £654 £575 £644
90th Percentile £729 £583 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £623 £525
% change year-on-year -19.68% +18.57% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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
London +61 28 £500 -13.04% 15
North of England +19 2 £775 +47.62% 8
North West +17 2 £775 +47.62% 5
South West - 2 £655 - 4
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 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) PaaS
5 5 (14.71%) Serverless
6 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (8.82%) Datadog
7 3 (8.82%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (5.88%) IaaS
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
9 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Network Security
2 4 (11.76%) BGP
2 4 (11.76%) MPLS
2 4 (11.76%) OSPF
2 4 (11.76%) VPN
2 4 (11.76%) WAN
3 3 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (8.82%) SNMP
3 3 (8.82%) SSH
3 3 (8.82%) Telnet
3 3 (8.82%) Wireshark
4 2 (5.88%) DNS
4 2 (5.88%) HSRP
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) Multicast
4 2 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.88%) VXLAN
5 1 (2.94%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) ClickHouse
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Electronics
5 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
5 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Site Engineer
1 13 (38.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) JSON
3 4 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 4 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.82%) Spring
4 3 (8.82%) XML
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Replication
4 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.94%) Clustering
6 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Android
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Solaris
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) DevOps
1 20 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (38.24%) Observability
4 11 (32.35%) Agile
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 9 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (23.53%) Microservices
6 8 (23.53%) Migration
6 8 (23.53%) Service Management
7 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) ITSM
8 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Cost Optimisation
9 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (14.71%) GitOps
9 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Java
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.71%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) Bicep
5 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.88%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) COBIT
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (8.82%) iptables
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) Terraform
2 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
3 12 (35.29%) Ansible
4 10 (29.41%) Grafana
4 10 (29.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.76%) Netcool
6 3 (8.82%) Cacti
6 3 (8.82%) Nagios
6 3 (8.82%) Proxmox
6 3 (8.82%) Puppet
6 3 (8.82%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (2.94%) Graylog
7 1 (2.94%) logstash
7 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Splunk
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) IBM
4 3 (8.82%) Juniper
4 3 (8.82%) Nokia
4 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Arista
5 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.88%) Solace
5 2 (5.88%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Huawei
6 1 (2.94%) Qualys
6 1 (2.94%) Remedy
6 1 (2.94%) Serena