Functional Safety Contracts in the North of England

Functional Safety
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Functional Safety skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Functional Safety over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 182 218
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.063% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.56% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
England median daily rate - £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £43.48 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.75 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% - -
75th Percentile £58.94 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £61.83 - -
England median hourly rate £52.75 £47.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +11.05% -17.39% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

Functional Safety falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Functional Safety as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Safety in the North of England

Functional Safety
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Safety in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Functional Safety in the North of England

Functional Safety
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Safety in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Safety in the North of England

Functional Safety
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Safety in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Safety in the North of England

Functional Safety
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 2 - - 28
Functional Safety
England

Functional Safety
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Simulink
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Safety Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HAZOP
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens