The first table below looks at the demand for ISO 9000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO 9000 over the 3 months to 18 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO 9000
Rank - 129 130
Contract jobs citing ISO 9000 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.164% 0.066%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 2.463% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £350 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £458 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
+30.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- -2.06%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
135 203 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 5.602% 6.667% 4.271%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 75 64
Average daily rate £325 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £163 £102
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% +24.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £12.80 £10.44
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £24.58 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
ISO 9000
England

ISO 9000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9000 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

North West ISO 9000 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO 9000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO 9000 across the North West region.

North West ISO 9000 Daily Rate Trend

ISO 9000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9000 across the North West region.

North West ISO 9000 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO 9000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 9000 within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
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on Same Period
Last Year
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ISO 9000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ISO 9000 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 9000.

1 18 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (94.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (94.44%) SC Cleared
2 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 17 (94.44%) Incident Management
3 10 (55.56%) Statistics
3 10 (55.56%) Citrix
3 10 (55.56%) MS Exchange
3 10 (55.56%) VPN
3 10 (55.56%) SLA
3 10 (55.56%) Windows NT
3 10 (55.56%) C
3 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Windows 7
4 8 (44.44%) Windows XP
5 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
5 7 (38.89%) MS Project
5 7 (38.89%) MS Office
5 7 (38.89%) ITIL
5 7 (38.89%) MCP
5 7 (38.89%) IBM Notes
5 7 (38.89%) MCSE
5 7 (38.89%) OpenView
5 7 (38.89%) HP
5 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (38.89%) Lotus
5 7 (38.89%) MS PowerPoint

ISO 9000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ISO 9000 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 9000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) Application Packaging
1 1 (5.556%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 7 (38.89%) IBM Notes
3 4 (22.22%) LiveLink
Applications
1 18 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
2 7 (38.89%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (38.89%) MS Project
2 7 (38.89%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MSI
1 1 (5.556%) InstallShield
1 1 (5.556%) AdminStudio
1 1 (5.556%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Analyst
2 10 (55.56%) Help Desk Analyst
2 10 (55.56%) Help Desk Support
2 10 (55.56%) IT Support
3 7 (38.89%) Support Analyst
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows NT
3 8 (44.44%) Windows XP
3 8 (44.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Incident Management
2 7 (38.89%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (94.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) MCP
4 7 (38.89%) MCSE
4 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (38.89%) MCDST
4 7 (38.89%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (94.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (55.56%) SLA
3 7 (38.89%) BS25999
4 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) OpenView
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) Citrix
3 7 (38.89%) Lotus
3 7 (38.89%) HP
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