SBOM Contract Job Trends

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SBOM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 561 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SBOM 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 29,589 32,869 44,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.60% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,385 20,313 30,580
10th Percentile £300 £310 £314
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,782 1,485 1,560
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +7.50% +73.91%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SBOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SBOM in the UK

SBOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SBOM
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SBOM within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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
England +10 1 £525 -4.55% 8
UK excluding London - 1 £525 - 7
South West - 1 £525 - 1

SBOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware