Software Assurance Contracts

Software Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 566 677 816
Rank change year-on-year +111 +139 -91
Contract jobs citing Software Assurance 13 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.012% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.014% 0.031%
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 excluding London median daily rate £675 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +42.11% -24.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 excluding London median hourly rate £62.32 £46.96 £47.83
% change year-on-year +32.69% -1.80% -22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +103 11 £675 +42.11% 5
UK excluding London +55 11 £675 +42.11% 5
Work from Home +114 8 - - 5
North of England +33 6 - - 1
North West +20 6 - - 1
Midlands - 4 £675 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £675 - 1
South East +8 1 £575 +21.05% 2

Software Assurance
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Apigee
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Artifactory
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Aviation
2 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Principal Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Software Assurance Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Safety Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Software Assurance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Software Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Epics
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Kanban
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Ada
1 1 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Def Stans
2 1 (7.69%) DO-178B
2 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Mercator
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) QinetiQ