Functional Safety Job Trends in Scotland

Functional Safety
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +38.30%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 227 240 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.27% 8.72% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 54 130 248
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,225 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,537 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £90,378 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in Scotland

Functional Safety
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Functional Safety.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Edinburgh - 4 £60,000 - 1
Functional Safety
UK

Functional Safety
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) CAN bus
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Safety Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 4 (100.00%) MISRA
1 4 (100.00%) MISRA C