Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire 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 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £532 - -
90th Percentile £562 - -
England median daily rate £575 £510 £638
% change year-on-year +12.75% -20.00% +21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,934 809 1,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.12% 91.00% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 507 928
10th Percentile £306 £231 £262
25th Percentile £403 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £668
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 28 54
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.94 £11.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% +27.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £28.75 £22.56
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.04 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service-Level Objective in Yorkshire

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
South Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 3
West Yorkshire - 3 £375 -
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Apigee
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Apigee Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) API Management
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Availability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) ITSM
5 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Groovy
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) etcd
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Istio
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Fluentd
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk