The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 187 175 222
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +47
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 23 37 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.339% 0.478% 0.290%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.458% 0.661% 0.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 19
Average daily rate £450 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £263 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £588 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £350 £406
% change year-on-year
+1.78% -13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £18.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.60 £28.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+56.47% -12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Quality Management
London

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Quality Management Daily Rate Trend

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Quality Management across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Quality Management Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Quality Management Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Project Management
3 9 (21.95%) Banking
4 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
5 7 (17.07%) QA
6 6 (14.63%) MS Office
6 6 (14.63%) ITIL
7 5 (12.20%) Degree
7 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
7 5 (12.20%) Change Management
7 5 (12.20%) QMS
8 4 (9.756%) PRINCE2
9 3 (7.317%) Oracle
9 3 (7.317%) XML
9 3 (7.317%) JavaScript
9 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
9 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
9 3 (7.317%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (7.317%) Service Management
9 3 (7.317%) Service Delivery
9 3 (7.317%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (7.317%) Equities
9 3 (7.317%) Risk Assessment
9 3 (7.317%) IT Governance
9 3 (7.317%) Resource Management
9 3 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (7.317%) Market Risk
9 3 (7.317%) Stress Testing
9 3 (7.317%) Change Control
9 3 (7.317%) Data Quality

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 3 (7.317%) XML
2 2 (4.878%) Apache CXF
2 2 (4.878%) RESTful
2 2 (4.878%) HTML5
2 2 (4.878%) jQuery
2 2 (4.878%) Spring MVC
2 2 (4.878%) Spring
2 2 (4.878%) Ajax
2 2 (4.878%) JMS
2 2 (4.878%) J2EE
2 2 (4.878%) EJB
2 2 (4.878%) XSD
2 2 (4.878%) XSLT
2 2 (4.878%) Web Services
3 1 (2.439%) CSS
3 1 (2.439%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (4.878%) MS Exchange
2 2 (4.878%) Apache
3 1 (2.439%) SAS
3 1 (2.439%) CMS
3 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.439%) Force.com
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) MS Office
2 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
3 2 (4.878%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.878%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) Internet
1 2 (4.878%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.439%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (4.878%) Selenium
1 2 (4.878%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (4.878%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Banking
3 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.878%) Retail
4 2 (4.878%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.439%) Legal
5 1 (2.439%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.439%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Project Manager
2 9 (21.95%) Analyst
3 3 (7.317%) Developer
3 3 (7.317%) Data Analyst
3 3 (7.317%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Services Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Technical Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Project Administrator
4 2 (4.878%) Project Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (4.878%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Change Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Administrator
4 2 (4.878%) Software Developer
4 2 (4.878%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.878%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.439%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.439%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.317%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (7.317%) Equities
1 3 (7.317%) Market Risk
2 2 (4.878%) SaaS
2 2 (4.878%) Visualisation
2 2 (4.878%) RIA
2 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.439%) LIMS
3 1 (2.439%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.439%) Life Science
3 1 (2.439%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.439%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.439%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.439%) Heroku
3 1 (2.439%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) Windows
2 1 (2.439%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Project Management
2 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
3 6 (14.63%) ITIL
4 5 (12.20%) Change Management
4 5 (12.20%) QMS
5 4 (9.756%) PRINCE2
6 3 (7.317%) Service Management
6 3 (7.317%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.317%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.317%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (7.317%) IT Governance
6 3 (7.317%) Resource Management
6 3 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (7.317%) Stress Testing
6 3 (7.317%) Change Control
7 2 (4.878%) Process Improvement
7 2 (4.878%) Time Management
7 2 (4.878%) Performance Management
7 2 (4.878%) OWASP
7 2 (4.878%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.317%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.439%) SQL
2 1 (2.439%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 2 (4.878%) CIMA
2 2 (4.878%) ACCA
2 2 (4.878%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.878%) MCP
2 2 (4.878%) MCSE
3 1 (2.439%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.439%) PMP
3 1 (2.439%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 3 (7.317%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.878%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.439%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.439%) GAMP
4 1 (2.439%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.439%) GxP
4 1 (2.439%) SLA
4 1 (2.439%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (4.878%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (7.317%) Oracle
2 2 (4.878%) Websense
2 2 (4.878%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.439%) SAP
3 1 (2.439%) Avaya
3 1 (2.439%) SunGard
3 1 (2.439%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (2.439%) DataFlux