The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quality Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management
Rank 87 86 68
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -18
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 4 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.315% 0.494% 0.535%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.441% 0.672% 0.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £352 £395 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.88% +12.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £310 £331
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
+13.46% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
908 1190 737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.55% 73.55% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 686 351
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Quality Management
Yorkshire

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Quality Management Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Management
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bradford - 2 £245 -
Halifax +13 1 £459 +17.69%
Castleford - 1 - -
Quality Management
Yorkshire

Quality Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (25.00%) Siebel
3 4 (25.00%) Informatica
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 4 (25.00%) QA
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (25.00%) Test Management
4 3 (18.75%) QMS
4 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (18.75%) Document Management
4 3 (18.75%) Requirements Management
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) CMMI
4 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (18.75%) ISO 9001
4 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) MS Office
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 1 (6.250%) BAPI
1 1 (6.250%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Documentum
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Office
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
1 3 (18.75%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) ATM
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.250%) MS Access
4 1 (6.250%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) ERwin
2 1 (6.250%) LSMW
General
1 4 (25.00%) Retail
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Legal
3 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.250%) Games
3 1 (6.250%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Quality Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Report Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (6.250%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.250%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.250%) Data Conversion
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (25.00%) Test Management
3 3 (18.75%) QMS
3 3 (18.75%) Document Management
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Requirements Management
3 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) CMMI
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
3 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Master Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) ABAP
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
2 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) ISO 9001
3 2 (12.50%) Basel II
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Siebel
2 4 (25.00%) Informatica
3 2 (12.50%) DataFlux
3 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
4 1 (6.250%) SAP
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft