DO-160 Contract Job Trends in Southampton

RTCA DO-160/EUROCAE ED-14
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring DO-160 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-160 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.76% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hampshire median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

DO-160 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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 15 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 11.36% 18.75% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 11
10th Percentile - £375 -
25th Percentile £375 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £200
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +156.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £469
90th Percentile £648 £713 £525
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.01 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £31.46 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -47.57% -7.69% +31.31%

DO-160
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) RS-422
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CPLD
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) Schematic Capture
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware