Functional Safety Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Functional Safety
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.073% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.17% +4.11%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

Functional Safety falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 171 144 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.45% 9.96% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 91 142
10th Percentile £206 £231 £273
25th Percentile £406 £317 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £609
90th Percentile £644 £581 £723
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 22
10th Percentile £21.29 £32.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £33.23 £35.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Safety relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in the East of England

Functional Safety
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Functional Safety.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Functional Safety.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
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 Functional Safety within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 2
Functional Safety
England

Functional Safety
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Polyspace
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) QNX