Safety Engineering Contract Job Trends

Safety Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Safety Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 527 591
Rank change year-on-year -70 +64 +154
Contract jobs citing Safety Engineering 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.006% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.007% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile - - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £551
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year - -22.07% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £83.41
% change year-on-year - -22.07% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Safety Engineering 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 34,907 27,716 39,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.98% 89.51% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,112 17,001 25,591
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 852 2,127
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +7.69%

Safety Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Safety Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Safety Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Safety Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 14 February 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 -68 8 £500 - 12
UK excluding London -62 7 £500 - 10
South West -10 6 £500 - 3
London - 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -

Safety Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) Modbus
1 1 (12.50%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 6 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Ada Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Ada Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PLC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PLC Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Safety Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Siemens Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Safety Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Google JAX
1 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (12.50%) JAX
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
3 1 (12.50%) LLM
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Red Team
3 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Ada
1 2 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens