Contract for Difference Contract Job Trends in Derby

Contract for Difference (CFD)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contract for Difference in contract job vacancies in Derby. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contract for Difference over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contract for Difference 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.82% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Generic Skills
Derby

Contract for Difference falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29 27 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 23.77% 24.77% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 11
10th Percentile £210 £310 £319
25th Percentile £408 £342 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £494
90th Percentile £556 £738 £500
Derbyshire median daily rate £467 £453 £438
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £18.70 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.32%
75th Percentile £26.00 - -
90th Percentile £29.00 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -55.47% +182.17% +14.32%

Contract for Difference
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 (100.00%) Jupyter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Beowulf
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA