The first table below looks at the demand for ISO 9001 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO 9001 over the 3 months to 21 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 South 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO 9001
Rank 91 125 116
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -9
Contract jobs citing ISO 9001 26 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.248% 0.521% 0.145%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.76% 8.057% 1.905%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £425 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +1.19%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £13.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -65.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.63 £13.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+166.34% -64.86%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
189 211 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 9.069% 6.462% 7.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 115 83
Average daily rate £383 £383 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.13% +4.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £200 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £479 £555 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 39
Average hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.10 £12.54 £20.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £157.50 £37.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West ISO 9001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISO 9001 across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West ISO 9001 Daily Rate Histogram

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 South West region.

South West ISO 9001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 9001 within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Devon - 10 £331 -
Wiltshire +11 9 £413 +135.71%
Dorset +2 5 £110 -
Bristol +10 1 - -
ISO 9001
England

ISO 9001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 11 (31.43%) CSS
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) Summit
3 9 (25.71%) ISO 14001
4 8 (22.86%) XML
4 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) C#
4 8 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (20.00%) jQuery
5 7 (20.00%) .NET
5 7 (20.00%) Project Management
6 6 (17.14%) Service Management
6 6 (17.14%) HTML
6 6 (17.14%) Web Services
6 6 (17.14%) HTML5
6 6 (17.14%) CSS3
7 5 (14.29%) ITIL
7 5 (14.29%) PRINCE2
7 5 (14.29%) UML
7 5 (14.29%) Web Development
7 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (14.29%) ITSM
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (11.43%) XSLT
9 3 (8.571%) Service Delivery
9 3 (8.571%) Fireworks
9 3 (8.571%) JAXB

ISO 9001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 11 (31.43%) CSS
2 8 (22.86%) XML
3 7 (20.00%) jQuery
3 7 (20.00%) .NET
4 6 (17.14%) HTML
4 6 (17.14%) Web Services
4 6 (17.14%) HTML5
4 6 (17.14%) CSS3
5 4 (11.43%) XSLT
6 3 (8.571%) JAXB
6 3 (8.571%) ASP.NET
6 3 (8.571%) RESTful
6 3 (8.571%) .NET Framework
6 3 (8.571%) Ajax
6 3 (8.571%) Dojo
6 3 (8.571%) WCF
6 3 (8.571%) Hibernate
6 3 (8.571%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (5.714%) Silverlight
7 2 (5.714%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.714%) Kentico
1 2 (5.714%) CMS
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Fireworks
1 3 (8.571%) Photoshop
1 3 (8.571%) MS Office
1 3 (8.571%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Summit
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle HRMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.857%) EDMS
2 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.857%) MySQL
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Subversion
1 2 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (5.714%) WinRunner
1 2 (5.714%) TestDirector
1 2 (5.714%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.857%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.571%) Retail
4 2 (5.714%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.714%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.571%) Test Manager
5 3 (8.571%) Web Designer
5 3 (8.571%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (8.571%) Designer
6 2 (5.714%) Photoshop Designer
7 1 (2.857%) Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Consultant
7 1 (2.857%) DBA
7 1 (2.857%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Platform Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Kindle
1 2 (5.714%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.571%) Windows XP
1 3 (8.571%) Windows
1 3 (8.571%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (20.00%) Project Management
3 6 (17.14%) Service Management
4 5 (14.29%) ITIL
4 5 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 5 (14.29%) UML
4 5 (14.29%) Web Development
4 5 (14.29%) ITSM
5 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (8.571%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.571%) Usability Testing
6 3 (8.571%) Test Scripting
6 3 (8.571%) System Testing
6 3 (8.571%) User Experience Design
6 3 (8.571%) Scrum
6 3 (8.571%) Data Analysis
6 3 (8.571%) Test Strategy
6 3 (8.571%) Information Architecture
7 2 (5.714%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
1 8 (22.86%) C#
2 3 (8.571%) XQuery
2 3 (8.571%) SQL
2 3 (8.571%) XPath
3 1 (2.857%) C
3 1 (2.857%) VBScript
3 1 (2.857%) VB
3 1 (2.857%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.857%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) ISO 14001
2 3 (8.571%) QA
3 2 (5.714%) TickIT
4 1 (2.857%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (8.571%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.714%) Alterian
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle
2 2 (5.714%) HP
3 1 (2.857%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.857%) Siebel
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