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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 386 449
Rank change year-on-year +46 +63 +136
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 29 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.064% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.072% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 20
10th Percentile £250 £518 £463
25th Percentile £406 £525 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £709
90th Percentile £670 £583 £775
England median daily rate £475 £525 £675
% change year-on-year -9.52% -22.22% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £58.75 -

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 12,486 15,230 22,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.05% 88.71% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,361 10,818 16,605
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 265 256
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.81 £32.29 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -20.80% +14.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £50.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £63.55 £69.20 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +8 7 £454 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) PaaS
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.34%) Datadog
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (10.34%) SNMP
2 3 (10.34%) SSH
2 3 (10.34%) Telnet
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
3 2 (6.90%) BGP
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) MPLS
3 2 (6.90%) Multicast
3 2 (6.90%) OSPF
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.45%) DSLAM
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Electronics
4 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 4 (13.79%) Marketing
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Site Engineer
1 9 (31.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.79%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Developer
4 4 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead C# Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) JSON
3 5 (17.24%) .NET Core
4 4 (13.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (10.34%) Spring
5 3 (10.34%) XML
6 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.24%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (41.38%) Observability
5 11 (37.93%) Agile
6 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
7 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 8 (27.59%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
9 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (20.69%) Microservices
9 6 (20.69%) Migration
9 6 (20.69%) OWASP
9 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
9 6 (20.69%) Service Management
10 5 (17.24%) ITSM
10 5 (17.24%) Pair Programming
10 5 (17.24%) SOLID
10 5 (17.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) C#
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) Bicep
4 3 (10.34%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (10.34%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) CEH
1 1 (3.45%) CISM
1 1 (3.45%) CISSP
1 1 (3.45%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) COBIT
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (10.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
3 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (27.59%) Ansible
5 3 (10.34%) Cacti
5 3 (10.34%) Nagios
5 3 (10.34%) Netcool
5 3 (10.34%) Proxmox
5 3 (10.34%) Puppet
5 3 (10.34%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (3.45%) Graylog
6 1 (3.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) SAP
4 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.34%) Nokia
4 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.34%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Huawei
5 1 (3.45%) Juniper
5 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto