SLAs jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-05-17, SLAs appears in 445 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Engineering Manager roles, with demand down 36% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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Frequently asked questions about SLAs
+Is SLAs in demand in 2026?
Yes. SLAs appears in 445 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 36% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Engineering Manager roles (11% of Engineering Manager postings list it).
+What jobs require SLAs?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the job titles most likely to require SLAs are Engineering Manager (11% of postings list SLAs), Software Engineer (10% of postings list SLAs), Product Manager (8% of postings list SLAs).
+What skills are commonly paired with SLAs?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-05-17), SLAs most often appears alongside observability, monitoring, SLOs, Distributed systems, Kubernetes.
+Where is SLAs most in demand?
As of 2026-05-17, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring SLAs are New York City, Bengaluru, San Francisco, London, Berlin, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new SLAs content and jobs?
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Weekly job postings requiring SLAs — last 90 days
Job titles most likely to require SLAs
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager | 48 | 10.8% |
| Software Engineer | 44 | 9.9% |
| Product Manager | 35 | 7.9% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 32 | 7.2% |
| Staff Software Engineer | 13 | 2.9% |
| Director of Engineering | 9 | 2.0% |
| Data Engineer | 8 | 1.8% |
| Principal Software Engineer | 7 | 1.6% |
| Technical Program Manager | 7 | 1.6% |
| Analytics Engineer | 6 | 1.3% |
Top metros hiring for SLAs
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 41 | 27.3% |
| Bengaluru | 28 | 18.7% |
| San Francisco | 23 | 15.3% |
| London | 15 | 10.0% |
| Berlin | 12 | 8.0% |
| Toronto | 12 | 8.0% |
| São Paulo | 7 | 4.7% |
| Amsterdam | 6 | 4.0% |
| Baden-Baden | 6 | 4.0% |
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 2026-05-17. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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