Service-Level Objective Job Trends in Birmingham

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 133 104
Rank change year-on-year +36 -29 +75
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.085% 0.045% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.055% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £59,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +7.45% +7.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,550
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £64,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% +7.45% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Service-Level Objective falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,045 1,833 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.56% 82.38% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 722 922 1,013
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £31,383
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,430
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Service-Level Objective.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Service-Level Objective

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google