ISO 26262 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO 26262
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO 26262 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 26262 over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 355 426
Rank change year-on-year -1 +71 +89
Contract jobs citing ISO 26262 3 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.060% 0.032%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £444 £359 £434
25th Percentile £472 £368 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £515
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -22.33% -
75th Percentile £584 £425 £521
90th Percentile £616 - £531
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £515
% change year-on-year +31.25% -22.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,661 2,505 3,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.37% 13.68% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,439 2,083
10th Percentile £235 £232 £260
25th Percentile £363 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 264 195
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.45
25th Percentile £15.50 £13.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.77 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -27.42% +64.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.56 £64.38
90th Percentile £86.80 £70.00 £78.22
UK median hourly rate £27.91 £25.77 £37.75
% change year-on-year +8.33% -31.75% +51.00%

ISO 26262
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISO 26262 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London

ISO 26262
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London

ISO 26262
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London

ISO 26262
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISO 26262 in the UK excluding London

ISO 26262
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 26262 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Midlands -17 2 £425 +6.25% 14
West Midlands -19 2 £425 +6.25% 13
North of England - 1 £625 - 5
North West - 1 £625 - 5
ISO 26262
UK

ISO 26262
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CANalyzer
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) CANoe
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) FMEA
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (33.33%) IEC 61508
1 1 (33.33%) IEC 62304
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) SAP