SBOM Contract Job Trends in England

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SBOM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 518 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SBOM 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 25,047 28,227 38,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.89% 86.02% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,909 17,699 26,512
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £648 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,483 1,330 1,437
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.65 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%
75th Percentile £48.73 £66.58 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SBOM in England

SBOM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SBOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SBOM

SBOM
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 SBOM within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
South West - 1 £525 - 1
SBOM
UK

SBOM
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware