SLA Jobs in Northamptonshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SLA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SLA over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing SLA 27 20 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.21% 2.30% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.37% 22.22% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27 19 7
10th Percentile - - £31,200
25th Percentile £26,250 £24,240 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £24,811 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% -54.89% +92.98%
75th Percentile £35,125 £25,875 £63,250
90th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £71,500
East Midlands median annual salary £29,500 £28,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -13.64% -5.71%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 147 90 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 17.50% 10.33% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41 47 32
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,240 £27,075
25th Percentile £29,750 £24,807 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -31.58% +4.40%
75th Percentile £40,000 £44,100 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,225
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for SLA in Northamptonshire

SLA
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SLA in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SLA in Northamptonshire

SLA
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton +1 21 £31,500 +26.96% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Entra ID
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Ethernet
1 7 (25.93%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
General
1 21 (77.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (25.93%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 7 (25.93%) Desktop Support
3 6 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (18.52%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 5 (18.52%) Help Desk Support
5 4 (14.81%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
7 1 (3.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Junior
7 1 (3.70%) Remote Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) CentOS
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Rocky
3 5 (18.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Customer Service
2 8 (29.63%) Data Protection
3 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
6 1 (3.70%) Change Control
6 1 (3.70%) Line Management
6 1 (3.70%) Migration
6 1 (3.70%) Network Optimisation
6 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.70%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) A+ Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
1 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
1 7 (25.93%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Meraki
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco