Quality Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Quality Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Quality Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Quality Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 124 148
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 16 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.25% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.29% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 18
10th Percentile - - £323
25th Percentile £190 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £375 £613
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -38.78% +86.31%
75th Percentile £438 £519 £688
90th Percentile £475 £598 £749
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £16.24
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.41 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +156.58% +28.20% +5.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £18.72
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £56.82 £36.41
% change year-on-year -63.04% +56.04% +1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Quality Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,098 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.64% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 1,439 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Quality Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the West Midlands

Quality Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the West Midlands

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the West Midlands

Quality Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Birmingham +16 4 £200 - 9
Staffordshire +13 3 £500 - 6
Warwickshire +2 3 - - 5
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Simulink
1 5 (31.25%) Stateflow
1 5 (31.25%) TargetLink
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) VLAN
1 3 (18.75%) VoIP
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Automotive
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Forensic Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (18.75%) Clustering
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Media
4 1 (6.25%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Mac OS
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Validation
1 8 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 6 (37.50%) Internal Audit
2 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Line Management
3 5 (31.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 5 (31.25%) QMS
3 5 (31.25%) Software Audit
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
3 5 (31.25%) UML
3 5 (31.25%) White-Box Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C
1 5 (31.25%) MATLAB
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (31.25%) ISO 26262
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA C
3 3 (18.75%) ISO 9001
3 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 3 (18.75%) ISO17020
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (6.25%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Autotask
1 3 (18.75%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Apple
1 3 (18.75%) Datto
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) VMware