DO-178B Contracts in the UK excluding London

RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 387 450
Rank change year-on-year +55 +63 +68
Contract jobs citing DO-178B 2 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.034% 0.021%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.097% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
UK median daily rate - £575 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £42.72
25th Percentile - £67.13 £42.81
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £48.08
Median % change year-on-year - +39.87% +0.98%
75th Percentile - £67.38 £51.52
90th Percentile - - £51.89
UK median hourly rate - £67.25 £48.08
% change year-on-year - +39.87% +0.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,061 3,114 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 15.04% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,822 2,393
10th Percentile £211 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 307 183
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.00
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.61 £36.25
% change year-on-year +68.65% -43.16% +31.82%

DO-178B
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DO-178B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DO-178B in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DO-178B in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DO-178B in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DO-178B in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DO-178B in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +34 1 - -
South West +27 1 - - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (50.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262