SLA Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing SLA 19 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 12.67% 6.06% 1.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.24% 80.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £151 - -
25th Percentile £156 £313 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £325 £538
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -39.53% -
75th Percentile £288 £338 £556
90th Percentile £469 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £275 £325 £538
% change year-on-year -15.38% -39.53% +19.44%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 42 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 28.00% 7.58% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 6
10th Percentile £156 - £344
25th Percentile £200 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £438
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -25.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £575 £338 £528
90th Percentile £626 - £547
Cheshire median daily rate £497 £455 £513
% change year-on-year +9.35% -11.32% +12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile £90.63 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £82.50 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year +61.76% - -

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Warrington

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Warrington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Warrington over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Warrington

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing SLA

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Analyst
2 15 (78.95%) Service Analyst
3 12 (63.16%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Service Management Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Incident and Problem Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Problem Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Problem Management Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) VMWare Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) ITIL
2 11 (57.89%) ITSM
3 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
4 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) CRM
7 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Event Correlation
7 3 (15.79%) Major Incident Management
7 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
7 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Service Design
7 3 (15.79%) SIAM
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.26%) vMotion
1 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Remedy
1 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) VMware