Software Assurance Contract Job Trends in the North East

Software Assurance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Software Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £500 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Software Assurance 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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 736 246 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.68% 83.67% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 150 97
10th Percentile £313 £225 £321
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £594
90th Percentile £654 £643 £708
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 13 35
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.90 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.75 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% -35.34% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £48.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Software Assurance job vacancy trend in the North East

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Software Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Software Assurance

Software Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Assurance within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Durham - 1 - -
Software Assurance
England

Software Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) EDMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Writer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CAPA
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GAMP
1 1 (100.00%) GMP
1 1 (100.00%) GxP
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow