Buckinghamshire QMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Management System (QMS) skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QMS over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Management System (QMS)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Telford UK West Midlands York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	91
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.401 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£393
% change on same period last year	+8.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.50	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+23.76 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	749	843
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.841 %
Daily rates quoted	270	229
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£326
Average daily rate	£358	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.75	£31.60
Average hourly rate	£25.83	£32.60
% change on same period last year	-20.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.90	£33.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
QMS South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

QMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QMS across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

QMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QMS across the Buckinghamshire region.

QMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QMS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	0	2	£350	-

QMS South East

QMS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing QMS 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 QMS.

1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Project 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) PMI 2 1 (33.33 %) PMP 2 1 (33.33 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) C

QMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing QMS 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 QMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Project	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) PMP 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI Certification