Quality Management Contracts in the North West

Quality Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Quality Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Quality Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 139 170
Rank change year-on-year +56 +31 -34
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 54 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.95% 0.66% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 0.73% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 17 9
10th Percentile £414 £373 £314
25th Percentile £455 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% -2.67%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £500
90th Percentile £533 - £575
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate £11.79 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £56.82 £36.41
% change year-on-year -63.04% +56.04% +6.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Quality Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Quality Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cumbria - 39 £493 - 8
Manchester +19 9 £360 -4.64% 14
Cheshire +2 5 £525 -2.78% 10
Merseyside +11 1 £525 +19.32% 7
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.85%) AWS
3 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Firewall
1 3 (5.56%) LAN
1 3 (5.56%) VLAN
1 3 (5.56%) VoIP
1 3 (5.56%) VPN
1 3 (5.56%) WAN
1 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Big Data
1 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.85%) Metadata
General
1 43 (79.63%) Social Skills
2 24 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.70%) Publishing
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Capacity Manager
2 13 (24.07%) Problem Manager
3 12 (22.22%) Availability Manager
3 12 (22.22%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 8 (14.81%) Software Asset Manager
4 8 (14.81%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Asset and Configuration Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Configuration Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Data Governance Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Governance Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Forensic Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Governance Manager
6 2 (3.70%) SAP Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (42.59%) Virtual Team
2 19 (35.19%) Management Information System
3 9 (16.67%) CMDB
4 4 (7.41%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.56%) Clustering
6 2 (3.70%) Digital Media
6 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.85%) Life Science
7 1 (1.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.85%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
1 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
1 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
1 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (70.37%) Mentoring
2 38 (70.37%) Service Management
2 38 (70.37%) Statistics
3 28 (51.85%) Problem Management
4 23 (42.59%) Virtual Team Management
5 16 (29.63%) Availability Management
5 16 (29.63%) Capacity Management
6 14 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (25.93%) Time Management
7 12 (22.22%) ITIL
7 12 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
8 10 (18.52%) Internal Audit
9 9 (16.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
10 7 (12.96%) Asset Management
11 6 (11.11%) Configuration Management
11 6 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
12 5 (9.26%) Software Asset Management
13 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
13 4 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 37 (68.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) PhD
5 1 (1.85%) APMP
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (3.70%) ISO17020
4 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Autotask
1 3 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Apple
2 3 (5.56%) Datto
2 3 (5.56%) VMware
3 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Google