Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £570 - -
25th Percentile £577 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £585 - £538
90th Percentile £591 - -
North West median daily rate £581 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,269 892 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.63% 91.02% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 601 962
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 33 77
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.93 £12.46
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £64.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.00% -36.92%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Manchester

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Content Development
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) IBM Certification
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft