Functional Safety Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Functional Safety
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 360 408
Rank change year-on-year -32 +48 +75
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 2 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.054% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.074% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £455 £391
25th Percentile £463 £503 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £488 £538 £531
90th Percentile - £539 £544
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £69.38
90th Percentile - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £56.25

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Functional Safety falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,691 2,289 2,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.16% 13.65% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 1,492 2,001
10th Percentile £243 £250 £263
25th Percentile £381 £380 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £662 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 36 121
10th Percentile £15.87 £14.51 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +109.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £50.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £84.05 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% -27.67% +100.00%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Safety relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Functional Safety
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Functional Safety.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Functional Safety.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
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 Functional Safety within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
Functional Safety
UK

Functional Safety
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Polyspace
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262
1 1 (50.00%) MISRA
1 1 (50.00%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) QNX
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens