Service-Level Objective Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 578 645
Rank change year-on-year +188 +67 +145
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 23 11 26
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.033% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.035% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £48,250 - £59,795
25th Percentile £57,440 £70,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £77,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% -18.42% +22.58%
75th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £139,040 £102,500 £110,500
UK median annual salary £69,384 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -22.91% - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Service-Level Objective
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service-Level Objective trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective.

Service-Level Objective salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Service-Level Objective salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) AWS
3 14 (60.87%) GCP
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon ECR
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 9 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (39.13%) AWS CodeBuild
4 9 (39.13%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (39.13%) dbt
4 9 (39.13%) Pulumi
4 9 (39.13%) Sentry
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (8.70%) Stackdriver
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (39.13%) Redis
3 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (26.09%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Law
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (56.52%) Site Engineer
3 9 (39.13%) Senior
4 6 (26.09%) Consultant
5 5 (21.74%) Lead
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps Consultant
6 3 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Django
2 6 (26.09%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
1 9 (39.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) DevOps
2 19 (82.61%) Observability
3 18 (78.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
4 15 (65.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 10 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (39.13%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 9 (39.13%) Clean Code
6 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (39.13%) Open Source
6 9 (39.13%) Performance Monitoring
6 9 (39.13%) Prototyping
7 8 (34.78%) Microservices
8 6 (26.09%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (26.09%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (26.09%) Proactive Monitoring
9 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 6 (26.09%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Terraform
2 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Google
2 8 (34.78%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk