Software Assurance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 733 742
Rank change year-on-year +363 +9 +93
Permanent jobs citing Software Assurance 232 26 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.036% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.043% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £46,985 £46,125 -
25th Percentile £52,803 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £71,875 £68,750 -
90th Percentile £74,500 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,826 59,821 56,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.51% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,888 41,261 29,198
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Assurance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South West - 73 £65,000 - 8
South East +115 46 - - 1
Scotland +157 37 - -
North of England +66 29 £46,213 -
Yorkshire +81 19 - -
East Midlands - 19 £72,500 -
Midlands - 19 £72,500 -
East of England +59 18 - -
North West +5 10 £46,213 -
Wales - 10 - -
Software Assurance
UK

Software Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (0.43%) AWS
1 1 (0.43%) Azure
1 1 (0.43%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Git
General
1 230 (99.14%) Electronics
2 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (0.43%) Aviation
3 1 (0.43%) Military
3 1 (0.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (79.74%) Principal Engineer
1 185 (79.74%) Software Assurance Engineer
2 25 (10.78%) Software Engineer
3 2 (0.86%) Senior
4 1 (0.43%) Consultant
4 1 (0.43%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (0.43%) Safety Consultant
4 1 (0.43%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (0.43%) Senior Software Assurance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.43%) .NET
1 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.43%) CSS
1 1 (0.43%) HTML
1 1 (0.43%) Jest
1 1 (0.43%) Puppeteer
1 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
1 1 (0.43%) React
1 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 229 (98.71%) Decision-Making
2 229 (98.71%) Systems Engineering
3 82 (35.34%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (0.86%) Agile
4 2 (0.86%) Mathematics
4 2 (0.86%) SDLC
5 1 (0.43%) CI/CD
5 1 (0.43%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.43%) DevOps
5 1 (0.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (0.43%) Machine Learning
5 1 (0.43%) Mentoring
5 1 (0.43%) Microservices
5 1 (0.43%) System Testing
5 1 (0.43%) User Experience
5 1 (0.43%) Validation
5 1 (0.43%) Waterfall
5 1 (0.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.43%) Ada
1 1 (0.43%) C
1 1 (0.43%) C#
1 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.43%) PHP
1 1 (0.43%) Python
1 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 229 (98.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (0.86%) Degree
3 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
1 1 (0.43%) DO-178B
1 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes