DO-254 Contracts in the East of England

RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring DO-254 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DO-254 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% - 0.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.42% - 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £66.20 - -
25th Percentile £74.38 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £88.00 - £50.00

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

DO-254 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 146 160 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.58% 8.36% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.51%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £718
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 26
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.34
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.48 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -10.34% -35.96%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.31
90th Percentile £86.70 £38.55 £68.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DO-254 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DO-254 in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DO-254 in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DO-254 in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DO-254 in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DO-254 in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DO-254 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 7
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
DO-254
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Simulink
2 2 (40.00%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet
General
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Games
3 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) FPGA
1 3 (60.00%) PCIe
1 3 (60.00%) Verilog
2 2 (40.00%) Analogue Electronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
1 3 (60.00%) UVM
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (60.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (60.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) HNC
2 3 (60.00%) HND
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) DO-160
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Actel
1 3 (60.00%) Altera
1 3 (60.00%) Intel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (60.00%) Xilinx