The first table below looks at the demand for GAMP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GAMP 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.

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
Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP)
Rank 524 576 585
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +9
Contract jobs citing GAMP 6 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.186% 0.046% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3231 4304 4332
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.964% 7.385% 7.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 1927 2251 2355
Average daily rate £400 £414 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.32% -8.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 229 229
Average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.64% -38.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £36.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%

GAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GAMP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

GAMP Jobs Demand Trend

GAMP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GAMP within the UK.

GAMP Daily Rate Trend

GAMP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GAMP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

GAMP Daily Rate Histogram

GAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GAMP within the UK.

GAMP Hourly Rate Trend

GAMP
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GAMP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England - 5 £475 -
Cambridge - 2 - -
Bristol - 2 £469 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
South West - 2 £469 -
East of England - 2 - -
Highlands - 1 £310 -
Scotland - 1 £310 -
City of London - 1 £475 -
London - 1 £475 -
Inverness - 1 £310 -

GAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GAMP 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 GAMP.

1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) GxP
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) EMC
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (16.67%) DHCP
5 2 (16.67%) Perl
5 2 (16.67%) GMP
5 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (16.67%) OCP

GAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GAMP 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 GAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
1 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (8.333%) VPN
2 1 (8.333%) WAN
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) MPLS
2 1 (8.333%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) Wireless
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) OLAP
2 1 (8.333%) Spotfire
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Applications Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) CRM Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.333%) LIMS
3 1 (8.333%) SCADA
3 1 (8.333%) Life Science
3 1 (8.333%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.333%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) Quality Management
4 1 (8.333%) Process Management
4 1 (8.333%) Validation
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) CRM
4 1 (8.333%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) OCP
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (16.67%) RHCE
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) CCNP
2 1 (8.333%) CISSP
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GxP
2 2 (16.67%) GMP
3 1 (8.333%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.333%) COBIT
3 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (8.333%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) EMC
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Polycom
3 1 (8.333%) Riverbed
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco