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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 891 1147
Rank change year-on-year +22 +256 -305
Permanent jobs citing Service-Level Objective 38 56 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.059% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.062% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 20 35 43
10th Percentile £66,625 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,217 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £82,818 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +3.52% +23.08%
75th Percentile £106,250 £90,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,500 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £82,818 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.48% +18.31% +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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Service-Level Objective in the UK

Service-Level Objective
Top 11 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 1 June 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 -30 27 £70,000 -15.48% 8
England +11 23 £83,750 +1.13% 11
Scotland -53 15 - - 1
London +101 11 £107,500 +29.80% 3
Work from Home +22 10 £73,750 -10.95% 7
North of England +30 6 £70,000 -15.48% 4
North West -1 6 £70,000 -15.48% 2
South West -26 3 £67,500 -18.50% 2
Midlands -15 2 £92,500 - 1
West Midlands -16 2 £92,500 - 1
South East -7 1 £77,500 -20.51%

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 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (86.84%) Azure
2 26 (68.42%) AWS
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (39.47%) Datadog
4 14 (36.84%) IaaS
4 14 (36.84%) PaaS
5 10 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) GCP
6 8 (21.05%) Azure AKS
7 6 (15.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (15.79%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.26%) GitHub
10 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.26%) Serverless
11 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) VPN
3 5 (13.16%) DHCP
3 5 (13.16%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) Internet
3 5 (13.16%) LAN
3 5 (13.16%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.16%) SSL
3 5 (13.16%) WAN
3 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) Relational Database
2 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) Dremio
5 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 17 (44.74%) GitLab
3 6 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.26%) Git
5 2 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 23 (60.53%) Finance
2 18 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (39.47%) Law
3 15 (39.47%) Marketing
4 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Lead
2 10 (26.32%) Site Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Operations Team Leader
5 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) .NET
1 15 (39.47%) Spring
1 15 (39.47%) Spring Boot
2 6 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 6 (15.79%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Algorithms
1 15 (39.47%) Data Structures
1 15 (39.47%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
3 22 (57.89%) Mentoring
4 19 (50.00%) Observability
5 15 (39.47%) Analytics
5 15 (39.47%) Cloud Enablement
5 15 (39.47%) Community of Practice
5 15 (39.47%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (39.47%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (39.47%) DevOps
5 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 15 (39.47%) Technology Enablement
6 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (23.68%) Cloud Security
8 7 (18.42%) Release Management
9 6 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (15.79%) ITIL
9 6 (15.79%) Load Testing
9 6 (15.79%) Microservices
9 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) Java
3 13 (34.21%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) Bicep
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
1 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (39.47%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 27 (71.05%) Kubernetes
1 27 (71.05%) Terraform
2 16 (42.11%) Grafana
2 16 (42.11%) Prometheus
3 6 (15.79%) Istio
4 3 (7.89%) Ansible
5 1 (2.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) Google
2 18 (47.37%) Splunk
3 15 (39.47%) Dynatrace
4 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle
7 2 (5.26%) Serena
8 1 (2.63%) TOWER Software