QinetiQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of QinetiQ products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QinetiQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within QinetiQ Group plc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 715 847
Rank change year-on-year +125 +132 -167
Contract jobs citing QinetiQ 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.043% 0.016% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 £500 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +5.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £669 £501 £563
90th Percentile £703 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +14.89% +5.37% +11.76%

All Vendors
UK

QinetiQ is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QinetiQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QinetiQ in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QinetiQ.

Daily rate trend for QinetiQ in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QinetiQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QinetiQ in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QinetiQ.

Hourly rate trend for QinetiQ in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QinetiQ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +132 8 £575 +14.89% 4
UK excluding London +68 7 £575 +14.89% 7
South East +29 6 £575 +14.89% 3
South West - 1 - - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Aviation
2 2 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) MATLAB Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Safety Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Acoustics
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) HOOD
3 2 (25.00%) Safety Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Assurance
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Ada
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Def Stans
2 2 (25.00%) DO-178B
3 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) VMware