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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 683 859
Rank change year-on-year +120 +176 -163
Contract jobs citing Functional Safety 16 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.019% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.12% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £600 -
% change year-on-year -12.42% - -
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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +120 15 £590 -1.67% 91
UK excluding London +53 11 £526 -12.42% 88
Work from Home +121 10 £650 +8.33% 31
West Midlands +18 5 £526 - 25
Midlands +15 5 £526 - 34
London - 4 £650 - 5
North of England +31 3 - - 15
North East - 3 - - 3
South East - 2 - - 10
East of England - 1 - - 12

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 4 (25.00%) CANalyzer
2 2 (12.50%) Simulink
3 1 (6.25%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) J1939
2 4 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (25.00%) FlexRay
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) CANoe
2 1 (6.25%) ClearCase
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Automotive
2 9 (56.25%) Electronics
3 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Process Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Process Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) CAN bus
2 4 (25.00%) Infotainment
3 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Power Management
3 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) Safety Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Benchmarking
6 1 (6.25%) Data Acquisition
6 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
6 1 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C
1 5 (31.25%) Embedded C
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) VBA
3 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) MathWorks