The first table below looks at the demand for ISO 9001 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISO 9001 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the West Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISO 9001
Rank 93 100 77
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -23
Contract jobs citing ISO 9001 4 3 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.238% 0.132% 1.088%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.494% 1.852% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
Average daily rate £263 £900 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-70.83% +119.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
- -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £56.25 £14.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
+287.93% -60.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
89 162 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 5.304% 7.133% 7.824%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 59
Average daily rate £325 £350 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £216 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 18
Average hourly rate £12.50 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.87 £10.70 £11.87
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £58.50 £32.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
ISO 9001
England

ISO 9001
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9001 across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

West Midlands ISO 9001 Jobs Demand Trend

ISO 9001
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISO 9001 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands ISO 9001 Daily Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISO 9001 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands ISO 9001 Hourly Rate Trend

ISO 9001
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 9001 within the West Midlands region 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warwickshire -3 2 - - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £263 -
Birmingham - - - -
Coventry - - - -
ISO 9001
England

ISO 9001
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ISO 9001 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 ISO 9001.

1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) TickIT
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
3 3 (42.86%) Automotive
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) VMware ESX
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 3 (42.86%) QA
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) MS Office
3 3 (42.86%) C++
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) C
3 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
3 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) LDAP
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) ASP
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) XSLT
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Web Development

ISO 9001
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ISO 9001 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 ISO 9001. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) ASP
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) DVB
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) W3C
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Unified Process
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) C
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) TickIT
2 3 (42.86%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) WAI
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 9000
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
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