Service-Level Objective Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Service-Level Objectives (SLO)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service-Level Objective 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 295 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 75.00% 96.09% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 263 179
10th Percentile £275 £302 £340
25th Percentile £375 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £393 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -6.43% -14.11%
75th Percentile £528 £450 £510
90th Percentile £600 £537 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £420 £445
% change year-on-year +13.10% -5.62% -9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.56 - £23.10
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.39 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% -11.61% -43.74%
75th Percentile £21.22 - £25.30
90th Percentile £42.24 £41.56 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.30% -16.13% -

Service-Level Objective
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service-Level Objective within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton - 1 £402 -
Service-Level Objective
East Midlands

Service-Level Objective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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