Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Service-Level Objective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

Service-Level Objective falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 117 273 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 78.52% 97.50% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 245 162
10th Percentile £341 £297 £341
25th Percentile £384 £350 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -9.15% -15.59%
75th Percentile £537 £447 £525
90th Percentile £623 £500 £600
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £393 £420
% change year-on-year +2.29% -6.43% -14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £15.22 - -
25th Percentile £15.55 - -
Median hourly rate £16.10 £21.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% - -
75th Percentile £16.65 - -
90th Percentile £16.98 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £15.00 £21.39 £24.20
% change year-on-year -29.87% -11.61% -43.74%

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus