SBOM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,080 1,763 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.28% 94.13% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,157 1,281
10th Percentile £377 £331 £375
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 £768 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.16% +11.24% -22.86%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SBOM job vacancy trend in the City of London

SBOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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