Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £562 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 855 246 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.85% 97.62% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 164 190
10th Percentile £355 £220 £360
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £16.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £22.25 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% -8.14% -31.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +19.46% +22.37% +24.46%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (33.33%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Fluent Bit
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Availability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) FMEA
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) etcd
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Fluentd
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk