Software Assurance Contracts in the Midlands

Software Assurance
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Software Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Assurance over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £625
75th Percentile £703 - £638
90th Percentile £731 - -
England median daily rate £675 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 3,046 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.26% 88.47% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 2,126 3,289
10th Percentile £235 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 151
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Software Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the Midlands

Software Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Assurance in the Midlands

Software Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
West Midlands - 4 £675 -
Software Assurance
England

Software Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Software Assurance Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Software Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Epics
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow