Software Assurance Contracts in England

Software Assurance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Software Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 581 754
Rank change year-on-year +76 +173 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 9 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.020% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.022% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £440 - £529
25th Percentile £481 £514 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -17.24%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £731
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +4.27% -12.08% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.41
25th Percentile £58.02 - £47.99
Median hourly rate £62.32 - £52.36
75th Percentile £66.61 - £54.98
90th Percentile - - £55.50
UK median hourly rate £62.32 - £52.36
% change year-on-year - - -15.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in England

Software Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Assurance in England

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Assurance in England

Software Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Assurance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Assurance in England

Software Assurance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Assurance within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 6 - - 1
North of England - 6 - - 1
London +51 3 £550 -8.33% 1
Software Assurance
UK

Software Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (11.11%) Apigee
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) IaaS
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Software Assurance Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle