SLA Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.36% - 0.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 - £210
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.25%
75th Percentile - - £215
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £334 £350 £210
% change year-on-year -4.57% +66.67% +35.48%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

SLA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 73 21 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 26.26% 13.46% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 19 14
10th Percentile £307 £260 £263
25th Percentile £358 £323 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £356 £434
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% -17.97% +57.82%
75th Percentile £447 £407 £529
90th Percentile £490 £448 £607
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £367 £400
% change year-on-year +18.80% -8.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £35.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.81 £24.98 £21.12
% change year-on-year -8.69% +18.28% +24.71%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SLA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

SLA job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SLA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SLA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SLA

SLA
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 SLA within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 February 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 £534 - 4
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PMO