Service-Level Objective Jobs

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Service-Level Objective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 914 1127
Rank change year-on-year +55 +213 -305
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 37 56 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.054% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.056% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 49
10th Percentile - £37,325 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £103,125 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £102,250 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,150 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.85% -9.79% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service-Level Objective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service-Level Objective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service-Level Objective.

Salary trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service-Level Objective within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +24 24 £70,000 +10.85% 5
England +85 22 £90,000 - 11
Scotland - 15 - -
London +112 13 £100,000 +11.11% 6
Work from Home +75 11 £77,500 -18.42% 4
North of England +54 6 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North West - 6 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands +24 2 £92,500 -
Midlands +6 2 £92,500 -
South West -1 1 £70,000 -17.65% 2

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (5.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (89.19%) Azure
2 22 (59.46%) AWS
3 15 (40.54%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (40.54%) Datadog
3 15 (40.54%) PaaS
4 13 (35.14%) IaaS
5 9 (24.32%) GCP
6 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Azure AKS
8 5 (13.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (13.51%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (5.41%) Serverless
11 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) DNS
2 8 (21.62%) VPN
3 5 (13.51%) DHCP
3 5 (13.51%) Firewall
3 5 (13.51%) Internet
3 5 (13.51%) LAN
3 5 (13.51%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.51%) SSL
3 5 (13.51%) WAN
3 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) Relational Database
2 6 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Dremio
3 2 (5.41%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (40.54%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) SonarQube
3 5 (13.51%) TeamCity
4 4 (10.81%) Git
5 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.70%) Gatling
6 1 (2.70%) JIRA
6 1 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (59.46%) Finance
2 18 (48.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (40.54%) Law
3 15 (40.54%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Lead
2 6 (16.22%) Site Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) .NET
2 15 (40.54%) Spring
2 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
3 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Public Cloud
2 16 (43.24%) Algorithms
3 15 (40.54%) Data Structures
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.11%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (5.41%) Clustering
6 2 (5.41%) Replication
7 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (72.97%) CI/CD
3 21 (56.76%) Mentoring
4 17 (45.95%) Observability
5 15 (40.54%) Analytics
5 15 (40.54%) Cloud Enablement
5 15 (40.54%) Community of Practice
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (40.54%) DevOps
5 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
5 15 (40.54%) Technology Enablement
6 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (21.62%) Agile
7 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
8 7 (18.92%) Migration
8 7 (18.92%) Release Management
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Cost Management
10 5 (13.51%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) Java
3 11 (29.73%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Bicep
5 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 26 (70.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (67.57%) Terraform
3 17 (45.95%) Grafana
3 17 (45.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.51%) Istio
5 4 (10.81%) Ansible
6 2 (5.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Google
2 18 (48.65%) Splunk
3 16 (43.24%) Dynatrace
4 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle
7 2 (5.41%) Serena
8 1 (2.70%) TOWER Software