Service-Level Objective Contracts in Scotland

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 121 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £410 -
25th Percentile £413 £512 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% - -
75th Percentile £438 £634 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £623 £525
% change year-on-year -19.68% +18.57% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -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
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 1 May 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
Edinburgh +6 6 £425 -31.73%
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium