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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 903 1118
Rank change year-on-year +40 +215 -283
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 38 56 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.055% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.058% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 20 33 46
10th Percentile £69,750 £51,155 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,200 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,818 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +6.86% +19.23%
75th Percentile £102,813 £97,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £113,750 £99,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,234 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% +4.62% +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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +2 25 £70,000 -4.42% 7
England +58 23 £90,000 +2.86% 12
Scotland -39 15 - -
London +110 13 £100,000 +14.29% 4
Work from Home +67 11 £77,500 -13.89% 4
North of England +52 6 £70,000 +16.67% 4
North West +9 6 £70,000 -15.48% 1
West Midlands +22 2 £92,500 -
Midlands -6 2 £92,500 -
South West -22 2 £68,750 -16.99% 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 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (86.84%) Azure
2 24 (63.16%) AWS
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (39.47%) Datadog
3 15 (39.47%) PaaS
4 13 (34.21%) IaaS
5 9 (23.68%) GCP
6 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) Azure AKS
8 5 (13.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (13.16%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (7.89%) Serverless
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.63%) GitHub
10 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) VPN
3 5 (13.16%) DHCP
3 5 (13.16%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) Internet
3 5 (13.16%) LAN
3 5 (13.16%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.16%) SSL
3 5 (13.16%) WAN
3 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) Relational Database
2 6 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Dremio
3 2 (5.26%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (42.11%) GitLab
3 5 (13.16%) SonarQube
3 5 (13.16%) TeamCity
4 3 (7.89%) Git
5 2 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.63%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 22 (57.89%) Finance
2 18 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (39.47%) Law
3 15 (39.47%) Marketing
4 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Lead
2 8 (21.05%) Site Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) .NET
1 15 (39.47%) Spring
1 15 (39.47%) Spring Boot
2 5 (13.16%) ARM Templates
2 5 (13.16%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Public Cloud
2 15 (39.47%) Algorithms
2 15 (39.47%) Data Structures
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Clustering
5 2 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 28 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 21 (55.26%) Mentoring
4 17 (44.74%) Observability
5 15 (39.47%) Analytics
5 15 (39.47%) Cloud Enablement
5 15 (39.47%) Community of Practice
5 15 (39.47%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (39.47%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (39.47%) DevOps
5 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 15 (39.47%) Technology Enablement
6 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
8 7 (18.42%) Agile
8 7 (18.42%) Release Management
9 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
9 6 (15.79%) Migration
10 5 (13.16%) Cost Management
10 5 (13.16%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Java
3 11 (28.95%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Bicep
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
1 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 26 (68.42%) Kubernetes
1 26 (68.42%) Terraform
2 17 (44.74%) Grafana
2 17 (44.74%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.16%) Istio
4 4 (10.53%) Ansible
5 2 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) Google
2 18 (47.37%) Splunk
3 15 (39.47%) Dynatrace
4 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle
7 2 (5.26%) Serena
8 1 (2.63%) TOWER Software