SLAs jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, SLAs appears in 528 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Engineering Manager has the most postings mentioning SLAs, with demand share down 3.6% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
528
Demand vs prior month
down 3.6% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 8.9% of skill postings
Top hiring metro
New York City

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Frequently asked questions about SLAs

+Is SLAs in demand in 2026?

Yes. SLAs appears in 528 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Engineering Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning SLAs (8.9% of all postings mentioning SLAs).

+What jobs require SLAs?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning SLAs are Data Product Owner (6.2% of that role’s postings mention SLAs), Release Engineer (6.1% of that role’s postings mention SLAs), Enterprise Data Architect (5.0% of that role’s postings mention SLAs).

+What skills are commonly paired with SLAs?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), SLAs most often appears alongside SLOs, observability, Python, monitoring, incident response.

+Where is SLAs most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring SLAs are New York City, San Francisco, Bengaluru, London, Alexandria, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new SLAs content and jobs?

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+Which skills come before and after SLAs?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring SLAs — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around SLAs

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before SLAs

Before SLAsAgile → SLAs: 6 observed employer moves with this skill pairJira → SLAs: 6 observed employer moves with this skill pairExcel → SLAs: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairautomation → SLAs: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairpython → SLAs: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairsql → SLAs: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairrisk management → SLAs: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairgovernance → SLAs: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAsAgile: 6 movesAgile6 movesJira: 6 movesJira6 movesExcel: 4 movesExcel4 movesautomation: 3 movesautomation3 movespython: 3 movespython3 movessql: 3 movessql3 movesrisk management: 3 movesrisk management3 movesgovernance: 3 movesgovernance3 moves

Skills after SLAs

After SLAsSLAs → python: 5 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → S3: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → Jira: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → AWS: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → SharePoint: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → Excel: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → FRD: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAs → Apache: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairSLAspython: 5 movespython5 movesS3: 4 movesS34 movesJira: 3 movesJira3 movesAWS: 3 movesAWS3 movesSharePoint: 3 movesSharePoint3 movesExcel: 3 movesExcel3 movesFRD: 2 movesFRD2 movesApache: 2 movesApache2 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: Agile6
Before: Jira6
Before: Excel4
Before: automation3
Before: python3
Before: sql3
Before: risk management3
Before: governance3
After: python5
After: S34
After: Jira3
After: AWS3
After: SharePoint3
After: Excel3
After: FRD2
After: Apache2

Roles most likely to require SLAs

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Data Product Owner26.2%
Release Engineer26.1%
Enterprise Data Architect15.0%
Data Product Manager44.5%
Delivery Manager14.5%
Enterprise Solution Architect14.5%
Tech Lead Manager14.5%
Partner Program Manager14.2%
SRE Engineer14.0%
Production Engineer23.9%

Roles with the most SLAs postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Engineering Manager478.9%
Site Reliability Engineer428.0%
Product Manager417.8%
Software Engineer336.2%
Program Manager214.0%
Technical Program Manager183.4%
DevOps Engineer173.2%
Data Engineer152.8%
Business Analyst112.1%
Platform Engineer81.5%

Top companies posting jobs requiring SLAs

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring SLAs
CompanyPostings · 90 days
ProSidian Consulting15
Ebury9
Databricks8
Oracle7
Wise7
Platacard6
NiCE6
Waymo6
Anthropic5
Coreweave4

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for SLAs

NamePostingsShare
New York City264.9%
San Francisco234.4%
Bengaluru193.6%
London183.4%
Alexandria152.8%
Seattle91.7%
Hyderabad81.5%
Pune81.5%
Austin71.3%

Skills commonly paired with SLAs

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning SLAs by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s SLAs postings by all SLAs postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.3% to 0.2%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
entity_id
5ce103161f16bf25
data_as_of
2026-09-30
window_days
90
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index