SLA Contracts in Cheshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for SLA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SLA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 56 20
Rank change year-on-year +23 -36 +16
Contract jobs citing SLA 24 6 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.79% 1.11% 7.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.05% 7.06% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - - £182
25th Percentile - £213 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £122 £338 £288
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £450 £472
90th Percentile - - £545
North West median daily rate £538 £479 £223
% change year-on-year +12.27% +115.17% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £17.73 - -
90th Percentile £17.76 - -
North West median hourly rate £11.60 £42.50 £12.59
% change year-on-year -72.71% +237.57% -13.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

SLA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 114 85 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 22.75% 15.77% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 51 46
10th Percentile £297 £213 £231
25th Percentile £413 £288 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £521
90th Percentile £580 £640 £575
North West median daily rate £513 £475 £464
% change year-on-year +7.89% +2.43% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile £16.79 £24.60 £36.22
25th Percentile £17.72 £30.54 £41.39
Median hourly rate £26.66 £32.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -34.46% +45.45%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - £44.60 -
North West median hourly rate £12.84 £37.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year -65.76% +105.48% +17.74%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Cheshire

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Cheshire

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Cheshire

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Northwich - 13 - - 1
Macclesfield -13 6 £122 -72.89% 1
Crewe - 1 - -
SLA
North West

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Customer Service Advisor
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Customer Service
2 9 (37.50%) Time Management
3 7 (29.17%) Service Management
4 6 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 6 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 6 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 6 (25.00%) Software Deployment
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (8.33%) Information Security
7 1 (4.17%) Availability Management
7 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.17%) ITSM
7 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.17%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CCNP
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (25.00%) SCCM
1 6 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (58.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (25.00%) Apple
4 5 (20.83%) VMware
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco
5 4 (16.67%) Meraki
6 3 (12.50%) Veeam