Safety Engineering Contracts

Safety Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Safety Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Safety Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 691 855
Rank change year-on-year +94 +164 -128
Contract jobs citing Safety Engineering 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.008% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.00%
75th Percentile - - £513
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Safety Engineering 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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Safety Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Safety Engineering in the UK

Safety Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Safety Engineering in the UK

Safety Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Safety Engineering in the UK

Safety Engineering
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Safety Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +96 5 £650 - 26
Work from Home +115 4 £650 - 13
London - 4 £650 - 3
UK excluding London +40 1 £575 - 27
South East +14 1 £575 - 1

Safety Engineering
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Aviation
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Safety Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Software Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) HOOD
2 1 (20.00%) Software Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Ada
1 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (20.00%) DO-178B
1 1 (20.00%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) QinetiQ