QAD Contracts in England

QAD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of QAD products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QAD over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within QAD, Inc.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 - 613
Rank change year-on-year - - +171
Contract jobs citing QAD 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% - 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.061% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £292 - -
25th Percentile £351 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.73%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
UK median daily rate £450 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

All Vendors
England

QAD falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,072 14,516 19,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.21% 43.64% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 9,258 12,966
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £716 £734 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 659 754 568
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.69 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.60 £58.88
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -13.28% -26.77% +80.00%

QAD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QAD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QAD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QAD in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QAD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QAD in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QAD within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
London - 5 £475 - 1
Midlands - 2 £255 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £255 - 1
South West - 1 - -
QAD
UK

QAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) LSMW
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Service Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) EDI
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Service Design
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) JD Edwards
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP