Service-Level Objective Contracts in London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 325 386 472
Rank change year-on-year +61 +86 +81
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 28 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.028% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.032% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 12
10th Percentile £250 - £429
25th Percentile £442 £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £633 £588 £659
90th Percentile £681 - £733
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +10 7 £454 - 1
East London - 2 £250 -
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) PaaS
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) AWS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (10.71%) Datadog
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (7.14%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
8 1 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Network Security
2 4 (14.29%) BGP
2 4 (14.29%) MPLS
2 4 (14.29%) OSPF
2 4 (14.29%) VPN
2 4 (14.29%) WAN
3 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (10.71%) SNMP
3 3 (10.71%) SSH
3 3 (10.71%) Telnet
3 3 (10.71%) Wireshark
4 2 (7.14%) DNS
4 2 (7.14%) HSRP
4 2 (7.14%) LAN
4 2 (7.14%) Multicast
4 2 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.57%) DHCP
5 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) GitLab
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Site Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
3 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) XML
4 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
3 4 (14.29%) Replication
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.57%) Clustering
6 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Android
3 2 (7.14%) Windows
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (35.71%) Observability
4 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Migration
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (21.43%) Microservices
6 6 (21.43%) Service Management
6 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) GitOps
8 4 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (14.29%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Bicep
4 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (10.71%) iptables
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 11 (39.29%) Ansible
2 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
3 9 (32.14%) Grafana
4 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.29%) Netcool
6 3 (10.71%) Cacti
6 3 (10.71%) Nagios
6 3 (10.71%) Proxmox
6 3 (10.71%) Puppet
6 3 (10.71%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (3.57%) Graylog
7 1 (3.57%) logstash
7 1 (3.57%) Tivoli
7 1 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) Splunk
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.71%) IBM
4 3 (10.71%) Juniper
4 3 (10.71%) Nokia
4 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.14%) Arista
5 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (7.14%) Solace
5 2 (7.14%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) Huawei
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Qualys
6 1 (3.57%) Serena