DO-254 Contract Job Trends in Southampton

RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring DO-254 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.59% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hampshire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £88.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

DO-254 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 30 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 17.75% 14.95% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 9
10th Percentile £255 £242 £205
25th Percentile £304 £310 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £366 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -18.61% +33.33%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £494
90th Percentile £658 £641 £588
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £35.40 - -
25th Percentile £36.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile £68.80 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +61.36% -48.24% +33.29%

DO-254
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DO-254 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

DO-254 job vacancy trend in Southampton

DO-254
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Mentor Graphics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx