SBOM Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.041% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £690 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £435 £550 -
% change year-on-year -20.91% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,282 2,965 4,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.23% 87.70% 87.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 1,699 2,684
10th Percentile £230 £263 £291
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £644 £669 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 136 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.21 £17.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.44 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -21.59% +55.56%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.91
90th Percentile £69.13 £70.87 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SBOM job vacancy trend in the North of England

SBOM
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 SBOM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Yorkshire - 2 £705 - 2
SBOM
England

SBOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSK
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform