ISO 26262 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

ISO 26262
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ISO 26262 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO 26262 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.072% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% - -
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 £513 £400 £515
% change year-on-year +28.13% -22.33% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

ISO 26262 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 250 173 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.00% 12.37% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 80 132
10th Percentile £220 £262 £286
25th Percentile £341 £318 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £718
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 29
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.42 £13.23
25th Percentile £16.45 £16.23 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £30.21 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% -32.11% +154.29%
75th Percentile £87.75 £63.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £33.93 £35.82
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.26% +49.23%

ISO 26262
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO 26262 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

ISO 26262 job vacancy trend in the East of England

ISO 26262
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 ISO 26262 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
ISO 26262
England

ISO 26262
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%) MISRA
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) QNX