The first table below looks at the demand for QMS 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 QMS over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management System (QMS)
Rank - 135 118
Contract jobs citing QMS 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - 0.121% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.178% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £331 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.39% -5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £12.01 £50.00
% change year-on-year
+295.66% -75.99%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1365 2249 1801
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.23% 68.09% 65.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1391 925
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 113 125
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -22.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £39.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
QMS
England

QMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QMS across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West QMS Jobs Demand Trend

QMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West QMS Daily Rate Trend

QMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West QMS Hourly Rate Trend

QMS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing QMS 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 QMS.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

QMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing QMS 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 QMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
Wiltshire, South West
Outstanding opportunity for a Quality and Assurance Support to work for a leading technology organisation based in Wiltshire.You will be responsible for:*Technical Support in development of...
JAM
Rate: £0.00 per annum + competitive
Posted: 4 May 2013
Poole, Dorset
The job require a candidate to have extensive knowledge in payments and also PEGA as a project manager... *Qualify as a PRINCE2 Practitioner and MSP Practitioner Technical Skills/...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013