FMECA Contract Job Trends

Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FMECA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 - 564
Rank change year-on-year - - +81
Contract jobs citing FMECA 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £700
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £83.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

FMECA 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -48.10% +1.18%

FMECA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FMECA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FMECA job vacancy trend in the UK

FMECA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FMECA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FMECA

FMECA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FMECA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FMECA

FMECA
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMECA within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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
England - 2 £575 - 21
UK excluding London - 2 £575 - 16
South East - 1 £575 - 9
South West - 1 - - 2

FMECA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) FMEA
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (50.00%) Hazard Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Safety Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (50.00%) DO-254
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM