Software Assurance Contracts

Software Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Software Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Assurance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 712 829
Rank change year-on-year +127 +117 -149
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 13 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.012% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.013% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 12
10th Percentile £538 £421 £540
25th Percentile £569 £436 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £491 £638
90th Percentile £719 £493 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £39.24 £42.50
25th Percentile - £41.59 £44.26
Median hourly rate - £46.96 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year - -1.80% -22.24%
75th Percentile - £50.88 £50.77
90th Percentile - £52.36 £52.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £46.96 £47.83
% change year-on-year - -1.80% -22.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance.

Daily rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance.

Hourly rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +134 7 - - 5
England +130 7 £675 +42.11% 9
UK excluding London +67 7 £675 +42.11% 8
Midlands - 4 £675 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £675 -
South East +26 3 £575 +21.05% 4

Software Assurance
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Apigee
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Artifactory
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Military
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Consultant
1 6 (46.15%) Software Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Software Assurance Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Safety Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Safety Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Assurance Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Safety Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
1 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
2 4 (30.77%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (23.08%) HOOD
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Kanban
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Safety Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (23.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Ada
2 6 (46.15%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
2 7 (53.85%) DO-178B
3 6 (46.15%) IEC 61508
4 2 (15.38%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Mercator
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) QinetiQ