DO-178B Contracts in the South East

RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring DO-178B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DO-178B over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 195 217
Rank change year-on-year +44 +22 +44
Contract jobs citing DO-178B 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% 0.054% 0.017%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% 0.36% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
England median daily rate - £575 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £44.64
Median hourly rate - - £48.08
75th Percentile - - £51.52
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £67.25 £48.08
% change year-on-year - +39.87% +0.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 510 823 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.93% 14.83% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 434 556
10th Percentile £200 £231 £200
25th Percentile £363 £360 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £578
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 66 42
10th Percentile £21.32 £10.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.82 £18.75
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -8.33% +42.69%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £51.14
90th Percentile £77.27 £65.00 £67.42
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DO-178B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DO-178B in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DO-178B in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DO-178B in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DO-178B in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DO-178B in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
DO-178B
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (100.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Verification Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262