Service-Level Objective Job Trends in Manchester

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 147 144
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 +105
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 2 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.070% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £53,750 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £57,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.09% -9.23% -31.58%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £74,275
90th Percentile - - £76,960
North West median annual salary £73,801 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.09% -9.23% -31.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,496 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.63% 93.83% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,167 1,854
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Manchester

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

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

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Salford +4 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Service-Level Objective
North West

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google