IEC 61508 Job Trends in the South East

IEC 61508
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IEC 61508 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 256 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Permanent jobs citing IEC 61508 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.031% 0.015% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.29% 0.094% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% -18.00% +20.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

IEC 61508 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,363 1,064 2,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.54% 15.85% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 836 609 1,519
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%

IEC 61508
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IEC 61508 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

IEC 61508 job vacancy trend in the South East

IEC 61508
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IEC 61508.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IEC 61508

IEC 61508
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IEC 61508 within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Thames Valley - 3 £55,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 2
Surrey - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
IEC 61508
England

IEC 61508
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Polyspace
1 2 (50.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Electrical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Safety Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Robotics
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Safety Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Def Stans
2 2 (50.00%) ISO 26262
2 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens