The first table below looks at the demand for GCP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GCP over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Rank 528 569 584
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +15
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.154% 0.093% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
Average daily rate £475 £165 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+187.87% -57.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £165 £475
% change year-on-year
+187.87% -65.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3241 4282 4242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.965% 7.340% 7.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1934 2248 2310
Average daily rate £400 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £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 108 226 224
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.72 £27.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -38.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%

GCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GCP Jobs Demand Trend

GCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

GCP Daily Rate Trend

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

GCP Hourly Rate Trend

GCP
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +63 4 £475 +187.87%
South East +25 4 £475 -
Berkshire +20 3 £475 -
Slough - 3 £475 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -

GCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GCP 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 GCP.

1 3 (50.00%) SAS
1 3 (50.00%) CDISC
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MGW
2 1 (16.67%) Riverbed
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) 2G
2 1 (16.67%) RNC
2 1 (16.67%) Statistics
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Dutch Language
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) SIGTRAN
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (16.67%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) GPRS
2 1 (16.67%) GSM
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WCDMA
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Ericsson

GCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) ATM
1 1 (16.67%) GPRS
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WCDMA
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) 3G
1 1 (16.67%) UTRAN
1 1 (16.67%) TELNET
1 1 (16.67%) ISUP
1 1 (16.67%) SCCP
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) 2G
1 1 (16.67%) RNC
1 1 (16.67%) SIGTRAN
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) MGW
General
1 1 (16.67%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programmer
1 3 (50.00%) SAS Programmer
1 3 (50.00%) Statistical Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
1 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) CDISC
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Juniper
1 1 (16.67%) Ericsson
1 1 (16.67%) Riverbed
1 1 (16.67%) F5