Safety Engineering Contract Job Trends in England

Safety Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Safety Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 484 541
Rank change year-on-year -68 +57 +148
Contract jobs citing Safety Engineering 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.023% 0.008% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.009% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile - - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year - -22.07% -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £83.41
% change year-on-year - -22.07% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Safety Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,953 23,398 33,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.52% 89.80% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,141 14,488 22,145
10th Percentile £310 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,876 738 1,974
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.30 £64.50 £60.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%

Safety Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Safety Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Safety Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Safety Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Safety Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering
Contract 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 Safety Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
South West -10 6 £500 - 3
East of England - 1 - -
London - 1 - - 2
Safety Engineering
UK

Safety Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) Modbus
1 1 (12.50%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 6 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Ada Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Ada Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PLC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PLC Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Safety Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Siemens Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Safety Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Google JAX
1 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (12.50%) JAX
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
3 1 (12.50%) LLM
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Red Team
3 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Ada
1 2 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens