Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Reading

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.090% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 545 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 81.51% 91.91% 86.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 345 513
10th Percentile £363 £350 £342
25th Percentile £458 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 18 33
10th Percentile £56.45 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.50 £14.75 £51.52
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +317.18% -66.92% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £74.87
90th Percentile £104.50 £59.13 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £32.05 £60.60
% change year-on-year +160.76% -47.11% +3.15%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Reading

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware