Service-Level Objective Job Trends in Edinburgh

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 94 101
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +61
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.39% 0.079% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.090% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -16.31% +65.64%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £87,419
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £53,901 £69,308 £82,818
% change year-on-year -22.23% -16.31% +65.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 1,114 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.71% 87.99% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 291 504 847
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £32,000 £46,741 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,128 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,776 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (33.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Availability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google