Software Assurance Jobs

Software Assurance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 911 1221
Rank change year-on-year +42 +310 -258
Permanent jobs citing Software Assurance 35 8 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.009% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.009% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 18
10th Percentile £46,225 - £38,250
25th Percentile £46,250 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -41.18% +54.55%
75th Percentile £66,563 £56,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -41.18% +58.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90,810 88,242 165,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.65% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,635 53,650 83,244
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,818 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Assurance over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Assurance in the UK

Software Assurance
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Assurance within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 25 £57,500 +15.00% 3
UK excluding London -35 25 £57,500 +15.00% 3
South East - 18 £57,500 -
Work from Home +33 5 - - 2
North of England +13 5 - - 1
North West -23 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands -39 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £49,000 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 6 (17.14%) Aviation
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Electronics
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
3 3 (8.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Senior
2 11 (31.43%) Security Researcher
3 10 (28.57%) Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Senior Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Commercial Executive
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Software Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) .NET
1 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
1 1 (2.86%) CSS
1 1 (2.86%) HTML
1 1 (2.86%) Jest
1 1 (2.86%) Puppeteer
1 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.86%) React
1 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Licensing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Application Security
1 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
2 9 (25.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (11.43%) Software Licensing
4 1 (2.86%) CI/CD
4 1 (2.86%) Decision-Making
4 1 (2.86%) DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (2.86%) Machine Learning
4 1 (2.86%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.86%) Open Source
4 1 (2.86%) Open Source Development
4 1 (2.86%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.86%) SDLC
4 1 (2.86%) System Testing
4 1 (2.86%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (2.86%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (2.86%) User Experience
4 1 (2.86%) UX Design
4 1 (2.86%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) C#
1 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.86%) PHP
1 1 (2.86%) Python
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft