Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.39% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £362 - £408
25th Percentile £425 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £623
75th Percentile £475 - £634
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £566 £653 £623
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.82% +13.18%

All Process & 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 1,303 1,464 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.22% 91.27% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 870 1,314
10th Percentile £234 £228 £264
25th Percentile £381 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £631 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 43 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%
75th Percentile £43.30 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £64.00 £40.90 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Scotland

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

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 4 February 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
Glasgow - 6 £450 - 2
Service-Level Objective
UK

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PromQL
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) PagerDuty
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google