DO-254 Job Trends in the South West

RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DO-254 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 - 257
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Permanent jobs citing DO-254 2 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.031% - 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.32% - 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50,464
25th Percentile £47,500 - £61,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £85,000
75th Percentile £52,500 - £90,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +36.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

DO-254 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 617 457 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.43% 16.13% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 354 240 825
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,875 £34,905
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.97% +4.79%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +10.09% -5.22%

DO-254
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DO-254 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

DO-254 job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DO-254.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DO-254

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DO-254 within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Bristol - 2 £50,000 - 1
DO-254
England

DO-254
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Avionics
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (50.00%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (50.00%) FMEA
1 1 (50.00%) Hazard Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (50.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HAZOP
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 62304
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware