Service-Level Objective Job Trends in London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 409 432
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 +202
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 16 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 20
10th Percentile - £51,875 £56,900
25th Percentile £68,813 £62,728 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £93,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +20.97% -11.43%
75th Percentile £80,645 £105,313 £100,625
90th Percentile £85,500 £109,625 £111,746
England median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -23.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,269 14,580 16,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.64% 94.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 8,006 13,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in London

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in London

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in London

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
West London +5 1 £80,000 -
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (25.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (25.00%) Datadog
3 4 (25.00%) dbt
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (25.00%) Prefect
3 4 (25.00%) Pulumi
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Sentry
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (25.00%) Redis
1 4 (25.00%) Weaviate
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (18.75%) Environment Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Environment Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Django
2 4 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (25.00%) Node.js
2 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 4 (25.00%) React
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Hackathon
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 15 (93.75%) Observability
3 12 (75.00%) DevOps
4 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 7 (43.75%) Incident Management
6 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (37.50%) Open Source
7 5 (31.25%) Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) AI
8 4 (25.00%) Asset Management
8 4 (25.00%) Change Management
8 4 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
8 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 4 (25.00%) Process Management
8 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Go
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) SLA
2 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Terraform
2 11 (68.75%) Ansible
3 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
1 4 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk