The first table below looks at the demand for GxP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GxP over the 3 months to 17 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GxP
Rank 383 398 432
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +34
Contract jobs citing GxP 2 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.030% 0.016%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.124% 0.380% 0.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £501 £350 £309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.00% +13.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £403 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+34.16% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.25 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1610 2107 2401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.456% 7.868% 7.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 1097 1307 1556
Average daily rate £450 £463 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 55
Average hourly rate £32.75 £17.87 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.31% -3.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.98 £11.70 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.20 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
GxP
England

GxP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GxP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

London GxP Jobs Demand Trend

GxP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GxP Daily Rate Trend

GxP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London GxP Hourly Rate Trend

GxP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GxP 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 GxP.

1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (33.33%) Life Science
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) XenApp
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture

GxP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GxP 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 GxP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP SD
1 1 (16.67%) SAP APO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
General
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Process Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Business Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Server Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Process Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (16.67%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
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Responsible for the validation of all GxP relevant applications and maintaining the validated state of those applications... Qualifications: Demonstrated Oracle project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing,...
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Posted: 17 May 2013