ISO 26262 Contracts in the West Midlands

ISO 26262
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring ISO 26262 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 26262 over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 103 119
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +51
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ISO 26262 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.37% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.64% 2.45% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% -
75th Percentile - £425 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £400 £515
% change year-on-year +18.75% -22.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

ISO 26262 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 313 286 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.93% 15.02% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 191 199
10th Percentile £235 £240 £313
25th Percentile £366 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £700 £725 £703
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 14
10th Percentile £16.04 £12.94 £15.07
25th Percentile £18.35 £14.25 £23.98
Median hourly rate £29.09 £15.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.96% -42.18% +61.76%
75th Percentile £34.71 £41.97 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £55.75 £34.90
England median hourly rate £31.64 £25.77 £35.75
% change year-on-year +22.80% -27.93% +58.89%

ISO 26262
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing ISO 26262 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 26262 in the West Midlands

ISO 26262
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISO 26262.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISO 26262

ISO 26262
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISO 26262.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISO 26262

ISO 26262
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 26262 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire -7 2 £425 - 13
ISO 26262
England

ISO 26262
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CANalyzer
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CANoe
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) FMEA
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive SPICE