Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Essex

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 - -
East of England median daily rate £381 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 104 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 74.63% 93.69% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 49 49
10th Percentile £309 £199 £188
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £528 £578
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 31
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £15.98
25th Percentile £16.12 - £29.17
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.87 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -74.84% +71.90%
75th Percentile £35.53 £43.20 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -12.79% +117.06%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service-Level Objective relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Essex

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service-Level Objective.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Service-Level Objective

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Basildon - 2 £381 - 1
Service-Level Objective
East of England

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Moogsoft