Service-Level Objective Contracts in Scotland

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Service-Level Objective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £512 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £623 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +18.57% -25.00% +23.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Service-Level Objective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,963 2,651 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.54% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,908 2,313
10th Percentile £229 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in Scotland

Service-Level Objective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Service-Level Objective in Scotland

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in Scotland

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh - 5 £623 -
Glasgow - 3 £418 -
Service-Level Objective
UK

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (12.50%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) HBase
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Gradle
2 5 (62.50%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Site Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Application Security
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) OWASP
3 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Distribution
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Groovy
2 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (62.50%) Bash
3 5 (62.50%) Ruby
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle