The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quality Management over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management
Rank 30 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.508% 0.382% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.680% 0.483% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £350 £406
% change year-on-year
+1.78% -13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.60 £28.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+56.47% -12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 207 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 74.62% 79.01% 79.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 114 94
Average daily rate £361 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.66% +22.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Quality Management
East of England

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Quality Management across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Quality Management Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Quality Management across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Quality Management Daily Rate Trend

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Quality Management across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Quality Management Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Management
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Quality Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Quality Management.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Quality Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Quality Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ICT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001