Service-Level Objective Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 284 343 453
Rank change year-on-year +59 +110 +154
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 20 2 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.013% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.015% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 15
10th Percentile £450 - £488
25th Percentile £472 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £668 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 - £683
UK median daily rate £500 £623 £525
% change year-on-year -19.68% +18.57% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Service-Level Objective
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service-Level Objective trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective.

Service-Level Objective daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Service-Level Objective daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service-Level Objective
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective.

Service-Level Objective hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) BGP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) MPLS
1 2 (10.00%) Multicast
1 2 (10.00%) OSPF
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (20.00%) Law
4 3 (15.00%) Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Solaris
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (30.00%) Technical Debt
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Observability
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) OO
7 4 (20.00%) OWASP
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (20.00%) SOLID
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
6 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (5.00%) Netcool
6 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
6 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.00%) Splunk
6 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.00%) EMC
6 1 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) Isilon
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Qualys
6 1 (5.00%) Serena
6 1 (5.00%) Sybase
6 1 (5.00%) Tanium