Software Assurance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Assurance
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 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 467 619
Rank change year-on-year +130 +152 -138
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.016% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.017% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -
UK median daily rate £675 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £53.35 -
UK median hourly rate - £46.96 £47.83
% change year-on-year - -1.80% -22.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Software Assurance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Assurance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Assurance
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 Software Assurance.

Software Assurance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Assurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Apigee
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Military
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Software Assurance Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Software Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Safety Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Assurance Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Safety Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
1 4 (57.14%) Verification and Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) HOOD
3 1 (14.29%) Safety Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Ada
1 5 (71.43%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) DO-178B
2 5 (71.43%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Mercator
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle