ISO 26262 Contracts in England

ISO 26262
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring ISO 26262 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 26262 over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 507 600
Rank change year-on-year +14 +93 +177
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ISO 26262 4 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.030% 0.016%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.084% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £433 £359 £434
25th Percentile £444 £368 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £515
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -22.33% -
75th Percentile £563 £425 £521
90th Percentile £608 - £531
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £515
% change year-on-year +18.75% -22.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,747 4,353 6,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.20% 13.12% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 2,717 4,184
10th Percentile £285 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 264 216
10th Percentile £15.13 £10.95 £15.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.46 £18.74
Median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.05% -21.43% +52.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.05 £70.00 £78.77
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £25.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.72% -26.62% +47.37%

ISO 26262
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISO 26262 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 26262 in England

ISO 26262
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 26262.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 26262

ISO 26262
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 26262 in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 26262 in England

ISO 26262
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 26262.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 26262

ISO 26262
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -8 2 £425 +6.25% 18
West Midlands -9 2 £425 +6.25% 17
North of England - 2 £550 - 10
North West - 2 £550 - 10
ISO 26262
UK

ISO 26262
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CANalyzer
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) CANoe
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) FMEA
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (25.00%) IEC 62304
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian