Service-Level Objective Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 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 41 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.31% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 402 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.85% 79.13% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 140 200 269
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,275 £29,945
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,800 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% +4.17%
75th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,583 £92,625 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Service-Level Objective

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
County Antrim - 1 £73,801 - 2
Service-Level Objective
UK

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