Service-Level Objective Job Trends in Darlington

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 3 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 5.77% 2.99% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 3.77% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £64,471 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 53 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 76.92% 79.10% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23 33 41
10th Percentile £25,707 £46,343 £31,250
25th Percentile - £55,400 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,188 £65,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.63% +27.45% -2.86%
75th Percentile £76,524 £79,600 £66,090
90th Percentile £79,758 £80,000 £69,800
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £58,900 £50,000
% change year-on-year -40.58% +17.80% +25.00%

Service-Level Objective
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Service-Level Objective job vacancy trend in Darlington

Service-Level Objective
Salary Trend in Darlington

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Service-Level Objective

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google