SLA Contracts in Manchester

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 79 96
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing SLA 39 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.67% 1.65% 1.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.57% 11.79% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 37
10th Percentile £283 £425 £133
25th Percentile £363 £430 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.59% +112.50%
75th Percentile £475 £541 £575
90th Percentile £520 £588 £615
North West median daily rate £538 £450 £260
% change year-on-year +19.44% +73.08% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £12.17 - £11.36
25th Percentile £12.42 £21.25 £11.65
Median hourly rate £12.84 £22.50 £12.59
Median % change year-on-year -42.93% +78.71% +4.24%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £14.76
90th Percentile - - £21.93
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £42.50 £12.68
% change year-on-year -73.66% +235.17% -6.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 222 246 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.20% 14.03% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 173 281
10th Percentile £351 £338 £263
25th Percentile £425 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £672
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 16
10th Percentile £12.84 £18.47 £11.56
25th Percentile £13.19 £21.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £37.13 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% -38.46% +303.64%
75th Percentile £68.78 £39.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.14 £63.84 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £12.00 £37.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -68.00% -25.74% +220.63%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SLA in Manchester

SLA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SLA in Manchester

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Manchester

SLA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SLA in Manchester

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Bolton - 1 £425 -
SLA
North West

SLA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.56%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) Azure
3 1 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) LAN
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Mocha
2 2 (5.13%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) GoCD
General
1 33 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Service Desk Agent
2 3 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (5.13%) Analyst
3 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
3 2 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (2.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Continuous Improvement Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Developer
4 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (2.56%) IT Support
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Jest
1 4 (10.26%) React
2 3 (7.69%) Redux
3 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) Customer Service
2 27 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
4 3 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (7.69%) ITIL
4 3 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (7.69%) Product Backlog
4 3 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
4 3 (7.69%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.13%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (2.56%) Active Listening
6 1 (2.56%) Architectural Design
6 1 (2.56%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.56%) Design Patterns
6 1 (2.56%) Micro Frontends
6 1 (2.56%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow