Service-Level Objective Jobs in the UK excluding London

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 738 738
Rank change year-on-year +195 0 +110
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 28 27 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.037% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.044% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 14
10th Percentile £43,750 £59,625 £59,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £69,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £70,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -15.48% +18.31%
75th Percentile £87,987 £80,000 £87,419
90th Percentile £146,300 £89,375 -
UK median annual salary £69,384 £83,750 £82,818
% change year-on-year -17.15% +1.13% +6.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Service-Level Objective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK excluding London

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service-Level Objective in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK excluding London

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in the UK excluding London

Service-Level Objective
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 of England +44 9 £69,384 -0.88% 50
Scotland +116 7 £39,500 - 9
North West +1 6 £101,340 +44.77% 27
South West +119 4 £78,569 +16.40% 29
East of England - 4 - - 28
North East - 3 £69,384 - 4
South East +91 2 £52,500 -32.26% 45
West Midlands +63 1 £67,626 -26.89% 19
Midlands +59 1 £67,626 -26.89% 34
Wales - 1 £67,626 - 8
Service-Level Objective
UK

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) GCP
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (21.43%) AWS CodeBuild
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (21.43%) dbt
3 6 (21.43%) Pulumi
3 6 (21.43%) Sentry
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (21.43%) Redis
4 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (21.43%) Banking
5 4 (14.29%) Retail
6 2 (7.14%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Site Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Lead
5 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Developer
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Django
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.57%) Loki
4 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
4 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (14.29%) Smartphone
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (21.43%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 16 (57.14%) Observability
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (35.71%) Clean Code
4 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (25.00%) Open Source
6 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (21.43%) Application Performance Monitoring
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
7 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (21.43%) Prototyping
8 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Go
5 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
6 4 (14.29%) Rust
7 3 (10.71%) Bash
7 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.29%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk