Software Assurance Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Software Assurance
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Software Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

Software Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 130 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 85.43% 76.92% 83.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 57 89
10th Percentile £139 £250 £160
25th Percentile £206 £322 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £617 £588 £610
90th Percentile £753 £641 £664
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 14
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.99
25th Percentile £17.84 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.81% +41.12%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.48% +3.33% +33.69%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Software Assurance job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Software Assurance
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 Software Assurance within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. 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
Derby - 1 - -
Software Assurance
East Midlands

Software Assurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Platform Development
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python