Service-Level Objective Jobs in the North of England

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 388 434
Rank change year-on-year +77 +46 +7
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 10 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.035% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.041% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £50,875 - £51,400
25th Percentile £63,850 - £54,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +16.67% -36.84%
75th Percentile £129,100 - -
90th Percentile £146,300 £76,875 -
England median annual salary £69,384 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -22.91% - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,453 14,483 16,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.69% 83.70% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,801 11,118 8,093
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in the North of England

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Service-Level Objective in the North of England

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in the North of England

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West +23 7 £75,000 +7.14% 4
North East - 3 £69,384 -
Service-Level Objective
England

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (40.00%) dbt
2 4 (40.00%) Pulumi
2 4 (40.00%) Sentry
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Redis
2 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Site Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
2 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (10.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (40.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) API Development
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Product Thinking
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Go
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic