Software Assurance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% - 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £418 - £538
25th Percentile £425 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.11%
75th Percentile £475 - £688
90th Percentile £483 - £719
UK median daily rate £450 £325 £675
% change year-on-year +38.46% -51.85% +42.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,960 11,496 17,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 90.51% 85.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,532 7,289 10,685
10th Percentile £281 £240 £240
25th Percentile £400 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile £583 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,993 784 1,985
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.67 £12.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £37.20 £29.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% -12.12% -8.65%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Software Assurance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Assurance

Software Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Assurance

Software Assurance
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 Software Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
East of England - 2 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Software Assurance
UK

Software Assurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
1 2 (66.67%) QA