RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DO-254 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DO-254 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 887 963
Rank change year-on-year +379 +76 +231
Permanent jobs citing DO-254 186 9 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.009% 0.025%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.10% 0.066% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 5
10th Percentile - £50,464 -
25th Percentile - £61,540 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.90% +30.77% +84.24%
75th Percentile - £90,000 -
90th Percentile - - £76,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -43.90% +41.67% +70.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,849 13,550 19,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 13.76% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 9,267 9,193
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%

DO-254
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DO-254 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DO-254 in the UK

DO-254
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DO-254.

Salary trend for DO-254 in the UK

DO-254
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DO-254 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DO-254 in the UK

DO-254
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DO-254 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +373 179 £47,683 -43.90% 24
England +308 144 £47,683 -43.90% 22
North of England - 59 £47,683 - 4
North West - 45 £47,683 - 3
South East - 35 - - 10
Scotland - 28 - - 1
South West +119 21 - - 5
Midlands - 15 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 14 - -
East Midlands - 14 - -
East of England - 14 - - 5
Wales - 7 - - 1
Work from Home +189 1 £75,000 +74.09% 4
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

DO-254
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Simulink
General
1 23 (12.37%) Electronics
2 22 (11.83%) Aviation
2 22 (11.83%) Social Skills
3 1 (0.54%) Advertising
3 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
3 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 163 (87.63%) Senior
2 147 (79.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 147 (79.03%) Systems Engineer
3 22 (11.83%) Radar Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) Senior Electrical Engineer
5 1 (0.54%) Engineering Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.54%) ASIC
1 1 (0.54%) FPGA
1 1 (0.54%) VHDL
1 1 (0.54%) VLSI
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (99.46%) Systems Engineering
2 163 (87.63%) Coaching
2 163 (87.63%) Mathematics
2 163 (87.63%) Physics
3 22 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (11.83%) Safety Engineering
4 16 (8.60%) Validation
4 16 (8.60%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (0.54%) Agile
5 1 (0.54%) Code Coverage
5 1 (0.54%) Configuration Management
5 1 (0.54%) FPGA Design
5 1 (0.54%) Kanban
5 1 (0.54%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (0.54%) Prototyping
5 1 (0.54%) Scrum
5 1 (0.54%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 186 (100.00%) Degree
2 185 (99.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (11.83%) CEH
4 16 (8.60%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (87.63%) ARP4754
1 163 (87.63%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 23 (12.37%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (0.54%) Xilinx