The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quality Management over the 3 months to 24 May 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 East Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management
Rank 74 74 72
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 9 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.718% 0.438% 0.861%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.071% 0.680% 1.325%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
Average daily rate £409 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.82% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £425 £623
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £320 £400
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £56.25 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.07% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £51.88 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+59.61% -
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
840 883 906
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 66.99% 64.41% 64.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 449 392
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 49 65
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Quality Management Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire - 5 £400 -
Derbyshire +11 3 £425 -
Leicestershire -10 1 - -
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 4 (36.36%) Project Management
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) XML
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (36.36%) Uniface
1 4 (36.36%) QMS
1 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
2 3 (27.27%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
2 3 (27.27%) ISO 9001
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Programme Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (9.091%) Northgate
4 1 (9.091%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (9.091%) Six Sigma Black Belt

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) XML
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Project Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Uniface Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Head of Development
3 1 (9.091%) Application Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Software Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Economics
1 1 (9.091%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
1 4 (36.36%) QMS
1 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
2 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Programme Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (9.091%) CMMI
4 1 (9.091%) DFSS
4 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.091%) DMAIC
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
4 1 (9.091%) Six Sigma
4 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
1 4 (36.36%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 1 (9.091%) ISEB
1 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
1 3 (27.27%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Northgate
3 1 (9.091%) JD Edwards