Middlesex Quality Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Management skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Quality Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Management
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Reading Redcar Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Taunton UK Wales Ware Warrington Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	39
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	9	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.473 %	2.703 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£355
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£375
% change on same period last year	+13.48 %
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	£28.00	£28.24
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	364	370
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.374 %
Daily rates quoted	96	93
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£316
Average daily rate	£355	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.44	£38.64
Average hourly rate	£35.44	£39.35
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.44	£40.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Quality Management 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.

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Demand Trend

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

Quality Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (43.75 %) QMS 2 6 (37.50 %) QA 2 6 (37.50 %) Health 3 4 (25.00 %) Smartcard 3 4 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (18.75 %) GxP 5 2 (12.50 %) Data Migration 5 2 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (12.50 %) Risk Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Performance Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Documentum 5 2 (12.50 %) Migration 5 2 (12.50 %) VMware 6 1 (6.250 %) Document Management

6 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (6.250 %) LAN 6 1 (6.250 %) WAN 6 1 (6.250 %) GMP 6 1 (6.250 %) GLP 6 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 6 1 (6.250 %) Sun 6 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (6.250 %) Lotus 6 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (6.250 %) EDMS 6 1 (6.250 %) Java 6 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 6 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere Application Server

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) Documentum 2 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) LAN 1 1 (6.250 %) WAN 1 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (6.250 %) EDMS 1 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects XI	General 1 6 (37.50 %) Health 2 4 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Analyst 2 6 (37.50 %) Quality Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Helpdesk Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Systems Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Desk Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Author 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Author	Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows 1 1 (6.250 %) Solaris 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) QMS 2 2 (12.50 %) Data Migration 2 2 (12.50 %) Performance Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Risk Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (6.250 %) Document Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (37.50 %) QA 2 3 (18.75 %) GxP 3 1 (6.250 %) GMP 3 1 (6.250 %) GLP
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) VMware 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Sun 2 1 (6.250 %) Lotus