DO-178B Contract Job Trends in Manchester

RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring DO-178B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-178B 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.054% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

DO-178B 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 291 135 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.68% 14.67% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 107 128
10th Percentile £349 £360 £351
25th Percentile £400 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £598
90th Percentile £632 £722 £694
North West median daily rate £488 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 11
10th Percentile £23.13 £22.46 £12.84
25th Percentile £29.96 £37.01 £13.08
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +338.14% -52.45%
75th Percentile £75.25 £76.25 £68.82
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.75 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £60.50 £47.25 £12.00
% change year-on-year +28.04% +293.75% -68.00%

DO-178B
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DO-178B relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

DO-178B job vacancy trend in Manchester

DO-178B
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DO-178B within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Bolton - 1 - - 1
DO-178B
North West

DO-178B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
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%) RISC-V
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ada
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware