Functional Safety Contracts with Work from Home Options

Functional Safety
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Functional Safety skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Safety over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 465 633
Rank change year-on-year +123 +168 -156
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 10 5 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.065% 0.019% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.60% 0.12% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
UK median daily rate £650 £600 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.13 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £40.31 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £52.81 -
90th Percentile - £56.38 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Functional Safety is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,653 4,293 7,227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.75% 16.60% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 3,179 5,378
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% +9.22%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.43% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 73 51
10th Percentile £21.73 £26.55 £15.00
25th Percentile £38.58 £55.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +65.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58.13 £77.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £87.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +155.56% -43.75%

Functional Safety
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Safety as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Functional Safety trend for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Safety
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Safety.

Functional Safety daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Safety
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Safety.

Functional Safety hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Safety
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Simulink
1 1 (10.00%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) J1939
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Automotive
2 5 (50.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CAN bus
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (40.00%) Safety Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) FMEA
3 1 (10.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C
1 5 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) AUTOSAR
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) MathWorks