ISO 26262 Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

ISO 26262
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring ISO 26262 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO 26262 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.10% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

ISO 26262 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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 25 3 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 27.47% 4.62% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £319 £471 £313
25th Percentile £387 £484 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £442 £534 £500
90th Percentile £455 £544 £640
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.19
25th Percentile £19.50 - £14.08
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £15.90
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.18%
75th Percentile £20.50 - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £28.18 £14.00
% change year-on-year -29.03% +101.29% -37.53%

ISO 26262
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Qt Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) QML
1 1 (100.00%) Qt
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) QNX