Functional Safety Jobs in the Midlands

Functional Safety
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Functional Safety skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Safety over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 299 209
Rank change year-on-year +61 -90 +52
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety 19 27 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.20% 1.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.28% 3.19% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £62,086
% change year-on-year -9.42% +11.14% +37.97%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 444 846 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.39% 6.24% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 255 630 490
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,175 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,298 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.80% -7.41% -3.57%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Functional Safety as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Safety in the Midlands

Functional Safety
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Safety in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Functional Safety in the Midlands

Functional Safety
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +44 13 - - 3
West Midlands +46 6 £62,500 -10.71% 17
Functional Safety
England

Functional Safety
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.26%) Modbus
1 1 (5.26%) MQTT
General
1 5 (26.32%) Automotive
1 5 (26.32%) Electronics
1 5 (26.32%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Safety Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Hazard Analysis
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (31.58%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Validation
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Mechatronics
3 5 (26.32%) Requirements Management
3 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (26.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (5.26%) FMEA
4 1 (5.26%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.26%) Product Management
4 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C
1 1 (5.26%) C#
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) HNC
3 1 (5.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) HAZOP
2 5 (26.32%) Automotive SPICE
2 5 (26.32%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) AVEVA
1 1 (5.26%) MathWorks
1 1 (5.26%) Rockwell
1 1 (5.26%) Siemens
1 1 (5.26%) VMware