DO-254 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring DO-254 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 94 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 6 1 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.47% 0.066% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.79% 0.69% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
England median daily rate £60 £581 £450
% change year-on-year -89.67% +29.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £66.53 - -
25th Percentile £75.19 £67.75 -
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.00 £70.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +19.15% +41.00% -4.50%

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 215 144 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.73% 9.47% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 64 126
10th Percentile £209 £224 £273
25th Percentile £356 £306 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £488
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -20.51% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £618 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.57 £14.99 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% +25.31% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £69.38
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.00% +52.17%

DO-254
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

DO-254
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DO-254.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DO-254

DO-254
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 7 September 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 7 September 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 - 6 £60 - 4
DO-254
England

DO-254
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 6 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (100.00%) Electronics
1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) PCIe
1 6 (100.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Physics
1 6 (100.00%) UVM
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 6 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) HNC
1 6 (100.00%) HND
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Actel
1 6 (100.00%) Altera
1 6 (100.00%) Intel
1 6 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 6 (100.00%) Xilinx