The first table below looks at the demand for ISO 9001 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO 9001 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO 9001
Rank - 29 -
Contract jobs citing ISO 9001 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - 1.091% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 17.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.63 £13.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+166.34% -64.86%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
14 17 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 8.235% 6.182% 4.611%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 11
Average daily rate £375 £431 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +7.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £600 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
ISO 9001
England

ISO 9001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9001 across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Midlands ISO 9001 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO 9001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO 9001 across the Midlands region.

Midlands ISO 9001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9001 across the Midlands region.

Midlands ISO 9001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing ISO 9001 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 ISO 9001.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) TickIT
1 3 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing

ISO 9001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing ISO 9001 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 ISO 9001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Development Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Development Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle