RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DO-178B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DO-178B over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 889 954 1215
Rank change year-on-year +65 +261 -315
Permanent jobs citing DO-178B 7 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.052% 0.079% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £57,813
90th Percentile - £77,500 £59,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

DO-178B is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,490 20,156 25,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.26% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 9,268 13,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

DO-178B
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DO-178B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DO-178B in the UK

DO-178B
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DO-178B.

Salary trend for DO-178B in the UK

DO-178B
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DO-178B within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +5 7 £65,000 +8.33% 9
England +105 5 £65,000 - 9
South West -2 5 £65,000 -5.45% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

DO-178B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Teamcenter
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) VectorCAST
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 2 (28.57%) Avionics
2 2 (28.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Project Leader
2 3 (42.86%) Software Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Cost Control
3 3 (42.86%) Embedded Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) SysML
3 3 (42.86%) UML
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Functional Programming
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
2 5 (71.43%) Ada
3 2 (28.57%) Ada 83
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Def Stans