SLA Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Service Level Agreement (SLA)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 25 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing SLA 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.84% 4.95% 3.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.71% 27.78% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £161 £126 £340
25th Percentile £219 £127 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £324 £132 £413
Median % change year-on-year +145.45% -68.00% +17.86%
75th Percentile £434 £135 £450
90th Percentile £496 £135 £465
East Midlands median daily rate £363 £132 £475
% change year-on-year +174.62% -72.21% +40.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.04 £25.38
Median hourly rate - £25.08 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year - -2.68% -
75th Percentile - £25.11 £33.36
90th Percentile - - £46.34
East Midlands median hourly rate £12.82 £25.08 £19.63
% change year-on-year -48.87% +27.72% +82.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 35 18 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 14.64% 17.82% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 4
10th Percentile £234 £133 £360
25th Percentile £378 £171 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% -2.11%
75th Percentile £509 £605 £480
90th Percentile £594 £650 £489
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +18.90% -18.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - £23.41 -
25th Percentile - £24.02 £25.38
Median hourly rate £12.76 £25.08 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year -49.11% -2.68% -
75th Percentile £13.13 £25.11 £33.36
90th Percentile £13.50 - £46.34
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £21.92 £19.64
% change year-on-year -26.40% +11.57% -38.15%

SLA
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

SLA job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

SLA
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing SLA

SLA
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLA in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLA in Derbyshire

SLA
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing SLA

SLA
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLA within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Chesterfield -1 1 £123 -6.82% 1
Derby -8 1 £525 - 2
SLA
East Midlands

SLA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki