IEC 61508 Contracts in the East Midlands

IEC 61508
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring IEC 61508 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IEC 61508 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 82
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IEC 61508 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.19% - 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.12% - 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £75 - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £75 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -86.36% +12.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +25.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

IEC 61508 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 89 83 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.60% 10.74% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 81
10th Percentile £168 £200 £231
25th Percentile £300 £255 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £434 £415
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +4.58% +3.75%
75th Percentile £476 £603 £538
90th Percentile £524 £623 £634
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £14.50 £9.95 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.88 £12.75 £32.50
Median hourly rate £20.60 £23.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -52.51% +192.31%
75th Percentile £25.19 £26.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £29.13 £34.48 £63.00
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

IEC 61508
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing IEC 61508 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IEC 61508 in the East Midlands

IEC 61508
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IEC 61508 in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IEC 61508 in the East Midlands

IEC 61508
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IEC 61508 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £75 -
IEC 61508
England

IEC 61508
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA C
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) QNX