IEC 62304 Contracts in the UK excluding London

IEC 62304
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IEC 62304 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IEC 62304 over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 368 415
Rank change year-on-year +3 +47 +99
Contract jobs citing IEC 62304 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.011% 0.014%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.037% 0.082% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile £613 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 - £609
90th Percentile - - £634
UK median daily rate £625 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

IEC 62304 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 2,677 2,451 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.32% 13.49% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,410 2,057
10th Percentile £235 £234 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £590
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 260 196
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £13.26 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £25.77 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -26.39% +66.27%
75th Percentile £66.88 £61.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £78.18
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £25.77 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.37% -26.39% +41.64%

IEC 62304
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IEC 62304 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IEC 62304 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 IEC 62304 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IEC 62304 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 IEC 62304 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IEC 62304 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 IEC 62304 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
North West - 1 £625 - 3
North of England - 1 £625 - 4
IEC 62304
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IEC 62304
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 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) FMEA
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) SAP