Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 173 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.078% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,249 1,693 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.15% 89.06% 83.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,051 1,132 1,532
10th Percentile £291 £202 £235
25th Percentile £400 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £678 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 72 183
10th Percentile £13.87 £12.62 £11.17
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £18.63 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% -16.39% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.33 £36.25
90th Percentile £30.25 £34.88 £55.80
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
West Midlands - 2 £514 - 1
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AIOps
1 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (66.67%) ChatOps
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Webhook
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Fluentd
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow