ISO/IEC 17025 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 17025
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO/IEC 17025 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 - 408
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 17025 2 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.066%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.071% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £550
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £600
UK median daily rate £450 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -23.40% +6.82% +57.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £27.50
75th Percentile £15.75 - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £30.00
UK median hourly rate £15.50 - £27.50

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 17025 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 2,835 2,374 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.70% 13.85% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,790 1,304 2,014
10th Percentile £263 £213 £263
25th Percentile £375 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £597
90th Percentile £656 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 192 210
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.03 £14.47
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.22 £18.55
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +72.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -23.61% +45.69%

ISO/IEC 17025
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 17025 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ISO/IEC 17025 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 17025
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO/IEC 17025.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO/IEC 17025

ISO/IEC 17025
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO/IEC 17025.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO/IEC 17025

ISO/IEC 17025
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 ISO/IEC 17025 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £325 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
ISO/IEC 17025
UK

ISO/IEC 17025
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Gunicorn
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Django Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
1 1 (50.00%) ISO17020
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker