Service-Level Objective Jobs in England

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 815 894
Rank change year-on-year +187 +79 +157
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 42 22 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.026% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.030% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 34 19 27
10th Percentile £44,875 £69,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £60,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £98,474 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £113,750 £103,000
UK median annual salary £68,505 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -23.88% - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,071 73,314 88,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.80% 85.78% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,007 54,025 52,111
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in England

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
London +105 19 £69,384 -30.62% 13
North of England +65 10 £69,384 -0.88% 5
North West +12 7 £75,000 +7.14% 4
South West +123 4 £78,569 +14.28% 2
East of England - 4 - - 5
South East - 4 £52,500 - 4
North East - 3 £69,384 -
Midlands +55 1 £67,626 -26.89% 2
West Midlands +42 1 £67,626 -26.89% 1
Service-Level Objective
UK

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) AWS
3 15 (35.71%) GCP
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (19.05%) AWS CodeBuild
5 8 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (19.05%) dbt
5 8 (19.05%) Pulumi
5 8 (19.05%) Sentry
6 4 (9.52%) Datadog
7 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.76%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 5 (11.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (19.05%) Redis
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
5 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
6 5 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (9.52%) Retail
6 3 (7.14%) Law
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 19 (45.24%) Site Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Consultant
5 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) DevOps Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (19.05%) Django
3 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Loki
5 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.52%) Smartphone
4 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 11 (26.19%) Unix
3 8 (19.05%) Windows
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) DevOps
2 24 (57.14%) Observability
2 24 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
4 14 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 13 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 12 (28.57%) Clean Code
7 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (19.05%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 8 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (19.05%) Dashboard Development
9 8 (19.05%) Open Source
9 8 (19.05%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (19.05%) Prototyping
9 8 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (16.67%) Microservices
10 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.05%) SQL
5 7 (16.67%) Go
6 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.52%) Rust
8 3 (7.14%) Bash
8 3 (7.14%) Gremlin
8 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.76%) C#
10 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Terraform
2 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
3 14 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 9 (21.43%) Grafana
5 8 (19.05%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (9.52%) Ansible
7 1 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Google
2 10 (23.81%) Dynatrace
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.38%) BigPanda
5 1 (2.38%) New Relic