SLA Contract Job Trends in Derby

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring SLA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing SLA 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.60% 2.56% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.17% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £324 £132 £413
% change year-on-year +145.45% -68.00% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.08 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate - £25.08 £25.77
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 24 14 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 14.46% 17.95% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 0
10th Percentile £260 £171 -
25th Percentile £397 £314 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% - -
75th Percentile £509 £650 -
90th Percentile £571 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £463 £463 £465
% change year-on-year - -0.54% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
Median hourly rate £12.76 £25.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.11% - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £12.76 £25.08 £25.77
% change year-on-year -49.11% -2.68% -

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Derby

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing SLA

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing SLA

SLA
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki