The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quality Management over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management
Rank 335 308 344
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +36
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 221 303 285
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.459% 0.522% 0.458%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.646% 0.765% 0.680%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 152 160
Average daily rate £400 £390 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £266 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £558 £552
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £350 £406
% change year-on-year
+1.78% -13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 10
Average hourly rate £30.25 £28.50 £35.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -19.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.30 £20.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.10 £41.70 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.60 £28.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+56.47% -12.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Quality Management Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Quality Management Daily Rate Trend

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Quality Management Daily Rate Histogram

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Quality Management Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Quality Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Quality Management
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
England -47 197 £400 -2.14% 32
London -45 85 £475 +14.45% 6
South East +31 36 £375 -11.24% 7
City of London -12 23 £450 +5.88% 2
North West +23 19 £369 +8.45%
East of England +32 17 £388 +40.90% 8
Yorkshire +6 14 £235 -40.50% 5
Berkshire +16 13 £323 +53.57% 2
Hertfordshire +32 12 £360 -
South West +24 9 £338 +7.14% 3
Manchester +13 9 £375 +150.00%
Buckinghamshire 0 9 £423 -
Reading +9 8 £525 +150.00%
West Yorkshire -3 7 £352 -9.74% 1
South Yorkshire - 7 £175 -
Scotland -19 6 £319 +15.90% 2
East Midlands -5 5 £421 -6.38% 1
West Midlands -10 5 £450 +63.63% 2
Wales +11 4 - - 3
Croydon +10 4 - -
South Wales +8 4 - - 2
West Sussex - 4 £375 -
Cardiff - 4 - - 2
Cheshire - 4 £475 -
Sheffield - 4 - -
North East +11 3 £350 -33.33% 1
Leeds -9 3 - - 1
Essex - 3 £425 - 1
Crawley - 3 £375 -
Bristol +12 2 £288 -26.28% 1

Quality Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Quality Management 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 Quality Management.

1 124 (31.39%) Project Management
2 123 (31.14%) Finance
3 69 (17.47%) PRINCE2
4 61 (15.44%) SAP
5 59 (14.94%) Risk Management
6 58 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 54 (13.67%) QA
8 46 (11.65%) ITIL
8 46 (11.65%) Banking
9 43 (10.89%) Change Management
9 43 (10.89%) Change Control
10 41 (10.38%) QMS
11 40 (10.13%) MS Office
12 38 (9.620%) MS Excel
13 37 (9.367%) Oracle
14 36 (9.114%) SQL
14 36 (9.114%) Telecoms
14 36 (9.114%) Degree
15 35 (8.861%) Programme Management
16 32 (8.101%) Configuration Management
16 32 (8.101%) Management Information System
17 31 (7.848%) Migration
17 31 (7.848%) Data Quality
18 30 (7.595%) User Acceptance Testing
18 30 (7.595%) SharePoint
19 28 (7.089%) Investment Banking
20 27 (6.835%) Microsoft
21 26 (6.582%) Data Modelling
21 26 (6.582%) MS PowerPoint
22 25 (6.329%) Service Delivery

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Quality Management 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 Quality Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (2.532%) XML
2 7 (1.772%) CSS
3 6 (1.519%) HTML
4 5 (1.266%) .NET
4 5 (1.266%) Web Services
4 5 (1.266%) Spring
5 4 (1.013%) jQuery
5 4 (1.013%) J2EE
5 4 (1.013%) JMS
5 4 (1.013%) HTML5
6 3 (0.759%) RESTful
6 3 (0.759%) Apache CXF
6 3 (0.759%) EJB
6 3 (0.759%) XSD
6 3 (0.759%) XSLT
6 3 (0.759%) Ajax
6 3 (0.759%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.506%) SOAP
8 1 (0.253%) soapUI
8 1 (0.253%) UDDI
Application Platforms
1 30 (7.595%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.519%) MS Exchange
2 6 (1.519%) SAS
2 6 (1.519%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (1.519%) Force.com
2 6 (1.519%) Lync
3 5 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.013%) IIS
4 4 (1.013%) Apache
5 2 (0.506%) CMS
5 2 (0.506%) PowerExchange
5 2 (0.506%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.253%) Documentum
6 1 (0.253%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.253%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.253%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.253%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.253%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.253%) Jetty
Applications
1 40 (10.13%) MS Office
2 38 (9.620%) MS Excel
3 26 (6.582%) MS PowerPoint
4 19 (4.810%) MS Project
5 12 (3.038%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.759%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 23 (5.823%) SAP QM
2 5 (1.266%) SAP xRPM
2 5 (1.266%) SAP MII
2 5 (1.266%) SAP cProjects
2 5 (1.266%) SAP MM
2 5 (1.266%) SAP PM
2 5 (1.266%) SAP EHS
2 5 (1.266%) SAP PLM
3 3 (0.759%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.759%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.759%) HFM
3 3 (0.759%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.506%) SAP HUM
4 2 (0.506%) SAP LE
4 2 (0.506%) SunGard APT
4 2 (0.506%) JDE World
5 1 (0.253%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.253%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.253%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.253%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.278%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (2.278%) Internet
2 8 (2.025%) Intranet
3 7 (1.772%) LAN
3 7 (1.772%) 3G
4 6 (1.519%) 2G
5 5 (1.266%) HTTP
5 5 (1.266%) MPLS
6 4 (1.013%) BSS
7 3 (0.759%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.506%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.506%) DNS
8 2 (0.506%) DHCP
8 2 (0.506%) ATM
8 2 (0.506%) WAN
9 1 (0.253%) NAS
9 1 (0.253%) LTE
9 1 (0.253%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.253%) Broadband
9 1 (0.253%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.316%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.038%) Oracle 10g
2 12 (3.038%) TOAD
3 8 (2.025%) Data Mining
3 8 (2.025%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (1.519%) Oracle BI EE
4 6 (1.519%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.266%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (1.013%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.759%) GIS
8 2 (0.506%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.506%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.506%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (0.506%) Big Data
9 1 (0.253%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.253%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.253%) MS Access
9 1 (0.253%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.253%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.253%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 10 (2.532%) ERwin
2 7 (1.772%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (1.266%) LoadRunner
4 4 (1.013%) Selenium
4 4 (1.013%) TestDirector
5 2 (0.506%) JIRA
5 2 (0.506%) JMeter
5 2 (0.506%) WinRunner
5 2 (0.506%) ClearCase
5 2 (0.506%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.253%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.253%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 1 (0.253%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.253%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.253%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.253%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.253%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.253%) LSMW
6 1 (0.253%) Subversion
6 1 (0.253%) Maven
General
1 123 (31.14%) Finance
2 46 (11.65%) Banking
3 36 (9.114%) Telecoms
4 28 (7.089%) Investment Banking
5 22 (5.570%) Manufacturing
6 16 (4.051%) Retail
7 13 (3.291%) Legal
8 11 (2.785%) Marketing
9 10 (2.532%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.266%) French Language
10 5 (1.266%) German Language
11 4 (1.013%) Local Government
11 4 (1.013%) Games
11 4 (1.013%) Front Office
12 3 (0.759%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.759%) Law
12 3 (0.759%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.759%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.506%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.506%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 80 (20.25%) Analyst
2 74 (18.73%) Project Manager
3 51 (12.91%) Consultant
4 33 (8.354%) Business Analyst
5 28 (7.089%) SAP Consultant
6 19 (4.810%) Developer
7 17 (4.304%) Quality Manager
8 13 (3.291%) SAP QM Consultant
9 12 (3.038%) Architect
10 11 (2.785%) Programme Manager
10 11 (2.785%) Business Manager
11 10 (2.532%) PMO Analyst
11 10 (2.532%) Risk Analyst
11 10 (2.532%) Service Manager
11 10 (2.532%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.278%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.278%) Senior Project Manager
12 9 (2.278%) PMO Manager
13 8 (2.025%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.772%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.101%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.544%) Credit Risk
3 10 (2.532%) SaaS
4 9 (2.278%) PMI
4 9 (2.278%) Economics
4 9 (2.278%) Market Risk
5 8 (2.025%) Computer Science
6 7 (1.772%) PaaS
6 7 (1.772%) IVR
7 5 (1.266%) Heroku
7 5 (1.266%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.266%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.266%) Equities
7 5 (1.266%) Life Science
7 5 (1.266%) CMDB
8 4 (1.013%) NHS
8 4 (1.013%) Visualisation
8 4 (1.013%) FMCG
8 4 (1.013%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.759%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.544%) Windows
2 5 (1.266%) Solaris
2 5 (1.266%) UNIX
3 4 (1.013%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (1.013%) Linux
3 4 (1.013%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.506%) Windows XP
4 2 (0.506%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (0.253%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.253%) Android
5 1 (0.253%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.253%) AIX
5 1 (0.253%) HPUX
5 1 (0.253%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (31.39%) Project Management
2 69 (17.47%) PRINCE2
3 59 (14.94%) Risk Management
4 58 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (11.65%) ITIL
6 43 (10.89%) Change Management
6 43 (10.89%) Change Control
7 41 (10.38%) QMS
8 35 (8.861%) Programme Management
9 32 (8.101%) Configuration Management
10 31 (7.848%) Migration
11 30 (7.595%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (6.582%) Data Modelling
13 25 (6.329%) Service Delivery
14 24 (6.076%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (5.823%) Data Management
15 23 (5.823%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (5.063%) ETL
16 20 (5.063%) Business Analysis
16 20 (5.063%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.114%) SQL
2 10 (2.532%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.772%) C
3 7 (1.772%) PL/SQL
4 6 (1.519%) Uniface
5 3 (0.759%) Java
5 3 (0.759%) VB
5 3 (0.759%) ABAP
6 2 (0.506%) C++
6 2 (0.506%) PHP
7 1 (0.253%) VBA
7 1 (0.253%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (9.114%) Degree
2 23 (5.823%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.063%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.544%) PMI Certification
5 13 (3.291%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 10 (2.532%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (2.025%) PMP
7 8 (2.025%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (1.266%) ISEB
9 4 (1.013%) CISA
9 4 (1.013%) CISM
10 3 (0.759%) ACCA
10 3 (0.759%) CIMA
10 3 (0.759%) CCAB
11 2 (0.506%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 2 (0.506%) CISSP
11 2 (0.506%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.506%) MCP
11 2 (0.506%) MCSE
11 2 (0.506%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.67%) QA
2 31 (7.848%) Data Quality
3 21 (5.316%) ISO 9001
4 14 (3.544%) SLA
5 8 (2.025%) Basel II
5 8 (2.025%) ISO 9000
6 7 (1.772%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.772%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.519%) COBIT
8 2 (0.506%) GxP
8 2 (0.506%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.253%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.253%) GAMP
9 1 (0.253%) TickIT
9 1 (0.253%) WAI
System Software
1 7 (1.772%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.759%) XenApp
2 3 (0.759%) XenDesktop
2 3 (0.759%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.759%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.253%) vCloud
3 1 (0.253%) vSphere
3 1 (0.253%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.253%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.266%) MOM
2 4 (1.013%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.253%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.253%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.253%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 61 (15.44%) SAP
2 37 (9.367%) Oracle
3 27 (6.835%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.785%) HP
5 10 (2.532%) Informatica
6 9 (2.278%) Business Objects
7 8 (2.025%) Cisco
7 8 (2.025%) Cognos
8 7 (1.772%) Avaya
8 7 (1.772%) Salesforce.com
9 6 (1.519%) JD Edwards
10 5 (1.266%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.266%) SunGard
10 5 (1.266%) IBM
10 5 (1.266%) Wonderware
11 4 (1.013%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.013%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.013%) ProCurve
12 3 (0.759%) Verint
12 3 (0.759%) MicroStrategy
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Posted: 14 June 2013
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Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day + Please quote
Posted: 31 May 2013
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 5 June 2013
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