Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.87% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £362 - £406
25th Percentile £425 - £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £418
75th Percentile £475 - £432
90th Percentile - - £435
Scotland median daily rate £450 - £623

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 587 696 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.95% 91.70% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 423 553
10th Percentile £301 £313 £345
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.52%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £606
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +0.89% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £62.75 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in Glasgow

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PromQL
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) PagerDuty
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google