Software Assurance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 448 495
Rank change year-on-year +68 +47 -71
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.021% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.024% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £538 £421 £564
25th Percentile £569 £436 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £491 £638
90th Percentile £719 £493 -
UK median daily rate £675 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £39.24 £42.50
25th Percentile £58.02 £41.59 £44.26
Median hourly rate £62.32 £46.96 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -1.80% -22.24%
75th Percentile £66.61 £50.88 £50.77
90th Percentile - £52.36 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £62.32 £46.96 £47.83
% change year-on-year +32.69% -1.80% -22.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -
Midlands - 4 £675 -
North of England +24 2 - - 3
North West +22 2 - - 2
South East +18 2 £575 +21.05% 2
Software Assurance
UK

Software Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Aviation
1 2 (25.00%) Military
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Assurance Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Safety Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Software Assurance Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Epics
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Ada
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Def Stans
2 2 (25.00%) DO-178B
3 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) QinetiQ