Software Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Assurance over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 976 1152
Rank change year-on-year +112 +176 -256
Permanent jobs citing Software Assurance 30 9 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.009% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.009% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 27
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -41.18% +54.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £90,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -41.18% +54.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance.

Salary trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +38 25 £57,500 +15.00% 10
England +138 23 £57,500 +15.00% 11
South East - 18 £57,500 - 5
North of England +54 5 - - 2
Work from Home +104 4 - - 7
North West +11 3 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £60,000 -

Software Assurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (10.00%) Electronics
2 3 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (3.33%) Aviation
3 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Senior
2 11 (36.67%) Security Researcher
3 9 (30.00%) Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Commercial Executive
5 2 (6.67%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Assurance Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Licensing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Application Security
2 9 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Software Licensing
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 1 (3.33%) Change Management
5 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.33%) Service Management
5 1 (3.33%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 9001
1 2 (6.67%) TickIT
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft