IEC 61508 Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IEC 61508
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IEC 61508 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing IEC 61508 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.074% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 515 454 923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.58% 16.05% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 296 205 566
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +35.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - +19.57% -8.77%

IEC 61508
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IEC 61508 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IEC 61508
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IEC 61508.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IEC 61508

IEC 61508
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 IEC 61508 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Oxfordshire - 3 £55,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
IEC 61508
South East

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