DO-254 Contracts in the UK excluding London

RTCA DO-254/EUROCAE ED-80
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DO-254 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DO-254 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 422 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing DO-254 1 25 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.11% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.034% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £488 -
UK median daily rate - £450 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £45.50 -
25th Percentile £67.75 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.25 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £62.04 -
UK median hourly rate £70.50 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.00% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

DO-254 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,980 3,406 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.29% 14.86% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,222 3,087
10th Percentile £250 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 194 202
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £14.83
Median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.62 £48.56
90th Percentile £68.87 £77.50 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

DO-254
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DO-254 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DO-254 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DO-254 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DO-254 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DO-254 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DO-254 in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DO-254 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
East of England -6 1 - - 3
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UK

DO-254
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Design Automation
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx