Functional Safety Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Functional Safety
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.092% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -14.63% -16.61% -

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

Functional Safety falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 119 99 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.97% 21.15% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 63 53 191
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,250 £60,138
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -7.08%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Functional Safety relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Functional Safety
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lydney - 1 £52,500 -
Functional Safety
South West

Functional Safety
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Mechatronics
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) HNC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens