SBOM Contract Job Trends in Central London

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.077% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £675 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

SBOM 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,289 1,939 2,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.90% 93.72% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,276 1,448
10th Percentile £363 £327 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.71 £29.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +21.05% -16.90% -12.93%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SBOM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SBOM job vacancy trend in Central London

SBOM
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SBOM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
City of London - 2 £550 - 1
SBOM
London

SBOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Product Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AssertJ
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware