SLA Contracts in Northamptonshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing SLA 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.12% - 2.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.62% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £147
25th Percentile - - £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.65%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate - £310 £300
% change year-on-year - +3.33% +23.71%

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 65 39 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 24.34% 13.68% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 29 19
10th Percentile £337 £355 £183
25th Percentile £358 £388 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £440 £613 £565
90th Percentile £475 £621 £569
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £35.08
25th Percentile - - £40.07
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year - -27.66% +101.14%
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £61.68
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.83 £21.73 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.14% -66.57% +230.54%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing SLA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Northamptonshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SLA in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for SLA in Northamptonshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SLA in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Northamptonshire

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 3 July 2025. 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 - 3 - - 2
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Rocky
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco