Functional Safety Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Functional Safety
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.095% - 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.79% - 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.36%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,500 £66,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +14.78% -4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 56 36 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.32% 5.89% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47 27 102
10th Percentile £30,500 £43,550 £23,325
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £62,500 £43,239
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +44.55% -3.91%
75th Percentile £73,125 £85,000 £61,651
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £75,875
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Functional Safety
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Functional Safety.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Polyspace
1 1 (100.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
1 1 (100.00%) QA