Quality Management Contracts in Manchester

Quality Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Quality Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Quality Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +43
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Quality Management 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.39% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £510 £510 £367
25th Percentile £525 £525 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +30.72%
75th Percentile £575 £575 -
90th Percentile £590 £590 -
North West median daily rate £580 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -1.40% +7.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Quality Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 1,051 1,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.24% 86.93% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 655 1,111
10th Percentile £301 £327 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £662 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 44 55
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.81 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £34.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +74.36% +11.43%
75th Percentile £55.25 £59.13 £43.13
90th Percentile £74.75 £73.60 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Quality Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in Manchester

Quality Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Quality Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Quality Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (25.00%) SAP MM
2 1 (25.00%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) SIPOC
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP