Functional Safety Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Functional Safety
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Functional Safety skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 163 244
Rank change year-on-year -4 +81 -20
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.037% 0.035% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 0.40% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -3.36%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £86,000 £66,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.30% +14.78% -4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 193 247 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.58% 8.66% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 129 159 636
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £56,253
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +6.66% -6.24%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +12.73% -

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Functional Safety job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Functional Safety
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Functional Safety.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Functional Safety

Functional Safety
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Buckinghamshire -25 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £55,000 - 2
Functional Safety
South East

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