Software Assurance Contracts in England

Software Assurance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Assurance over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 633 760
Rank change year-on-year +100 +127 -116
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 10 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.011% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.012% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £588 £421 £522
25th Percentile £663 £436 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £569
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -16.48% -
75th Percentile £688 £491 £638
90th Percentile £725 £493 -
UK median daily rate £675 £475 £569
% change year-on-year +42.11% -16.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £39.24 £42.50
25th Percentile £58.02 £41.59 £44.26
Median hourly rate £62.32 £46.96 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -1.80% -22.50%
75th Percentile £66.61 £50.88 £50.77
90th Percentile - £52.36 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £62.32 £46.96 £47.83
% change year-on-year +32.69% -1.80% -22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 May 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 May 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 of England +29 5 - - 1
North West +22 5 - - 1
Midlands - 4 £675 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £675 -
South East +9 1 £575 +21.05% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Aviation
1 1 (10.00%) Military
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Assurance Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Software Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Safety Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Software Assurance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Epics
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Ada
1 1 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (10.00%) DO-178B
2 1 (10.00%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) QinetiQ