Functional Safety Contracts

Functional Safety
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Functional Safety skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Safety over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 673 835
Rank change year-on-year +116 +162 -122
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 18 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.016% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.10% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £511 £560 -
25th Percentile £520 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £600 -
% change year-on-year -12.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile £51.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Functional Safety is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

Functional Safety
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Functional Safety as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Safety in the UK

Functional Safety
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Safety.

Daily rate trend for Functional Safety in the UK

Functional Safety
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Safety over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Safety in the UK

Functional Safety
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Safety.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Safety in the UK

Functional Safety
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Safety within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +95 17 £538 -10.33% 80
UK excluding London +43 13 £526 -12.33% 76
Work from Home +120 10 £650 +8.33% 20
Midlands +25 7 £526 - 28
West Midlands +16 7 £526 - 24
London - 4 £650 - 6
North of England +24 3 - - 13
North East - 3 - - 4
South East +12 2 - - 12
East of England - 1 - - 10

Functional Safety
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 6 (33.33%) CANalyzer
2 2 (11.11%) Simulink
3 1 (5.56%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 6 (33.33%) FlexRay
2 5 (27.78%) J1939
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) CANoe
2 1 (5.56%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 13 (72.22%) Automotive
2 11 (61.11%) Electronics
3 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Integration Manager
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Software Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Process Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Process Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Infotainment
2 5 (27.78%) CAN bus
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Power Management
2 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 6 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (22.22%) Safety Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Validation
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Data Acquisition
6 1 (5.56%) FMEA
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) VBA
3 5 (27.78%) C
3 5 (27.78%) Embedded C
4 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) MathWorks