DO-178B Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DO-178B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-178B 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.55% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £75.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.00 - -
90th Percentile £78.60 - -
East of England median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

DO-178B 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 51 39 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 14.05% 27.08% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 11
10th Percentile - £525 £500
25th Percentile £475 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £800 -
East of England median daily rate £520 £550 £410
% change year-on-year -5.45% +34.15% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 10
10th Percentile £13.86 £60.45 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £69.13 £15.39
Median hourly rate £27.94 £85.00 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -67.13% +438.32% -
75th Percentile £74.25 £88.00 £36.86
90th Percentile £74.55 £89.80 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £47.50 £15.79
% change year-on-year -58.08% +200.82% -9.77%

DO-178B
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DO-178B relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

DO-178B job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

DO-178B
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DO-178B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DO-178B

DO-178B
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DO-178B within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Luton - 2 - - 2
DO-178B
East of England

DO-178B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody
1 2 (100.00%) VectorCAST
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Ada Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Ada Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ada
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware