Service-Level Objective Jobs

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Service-Level Objective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 847 921 1133
Rank change year-on-year +74 +212 -289
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 37 54 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.054% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.057% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 19 31 44
10th Percentile £69,500 £58,775 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,818 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +10.42% +15.38%
75th Percentile £103,125 £96,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,234 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% +4.62% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service-Level Objective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service-Level Objective.

Salary trend for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service-Level Objective over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London 0 25 £70,000 -4.42% 12
England +59 22 £90,000 +2.86% 13
Scotland -50 15 - - 1
London +92 12 £100,000 +14.29% 1
Work from Home +67 11 £77,500 -11.43% 6
North of England +37 6 £70,000 +16.67% 8
North West +4 6 £70,000 -15.48% 4
West Midlands +11 2 £92,500 -
Midlands -9 2 £92,500 -
South West -21 2 £68,750 -16.99% 2

Service-Level Objective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (86.49%) Azure
2 24 (64.86%) AWS
3 15 (40.54%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (40.54%) Datadog
4 14 (37.84%) PaaS
5 13 (35.14%) IaaS
6 9 (24.32%) GCP
7 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (16.22%) Azure AKS
9 5 (13.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (13.51%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (5.41%) Serverless
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.70%) GitHub
12 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) DNS
2 8 (21.62%) VPN
3 5 (13.51%) DHCP
3 5 (13.51%) Firewall
3 5 (13.51%) Internet
3 5 (13.51%) LAN
3 5 (13.51%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.51%) SSL
3 5 (13.51%) WAN
3 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) Relational Database
2 6 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Dremio
3 2 (5.41%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) Jenkins
2 16 (43.24%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) SonarQube
3 5 (13.51%) TeamCity
4 3 (8.11%) Git
5 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 22 (59.46%) Finance
2 18 (48.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (40.54%) Law
3 15 (40.54%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Lead
2 8 (21.62%) Site Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Operations Team Leader
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (2.70%) Operations Team Leader
5 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) .NET
1 15 (40.54%) Spring
1 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
2 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
2 5 (13.51%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Public Cloud
2 15 (40.54%) Algorithms
2 15 (40.54%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (72.97%) CI/CD
3 21 (56.76%) Mentoring
4 17 (45.95%) Observability
5 15 (40.54%) Analytics
5 15 (40.54%) Cloud Enablement
5 15 (40.54%) Community of Practice
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
5 15 (40.54%) Technology Enablement
6 14 (37.84%) DevOps
7 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
9 7 (18.92%) Release Management
10 6 (16.22%) Agile
10 6 (16.22%) Migration
11 5 (13.51%) Load Testing
11 5 (13.51%) Performance Management
11 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) Java
3 11 (29.73%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Bicep
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 26 (70.27%) Kubernetes
1 26 (70.27%) Terraform
2 17 (45.95%) Grafana
2 17 (45.95%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.51%) Istio
4 4 (10.81%) Ansible
5 2 (5.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Google
2 18 (48.65%) Splunk
3 15 (40.54%) Dynatrace
4 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle
7 2 (5.41%) Serena
8 1 (2.70%) TOWER Software