Quality Management Contracts in the Midlands

Quality Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 151 178
Rank change year-on-year +41 +27 -34
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 27 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.98% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 18
10th Percentile £190 £363 £316
25th Percentile £246 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +16.28% +54.90%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £688
90th Percentile £589 £659 £749
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.24
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.41 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +67.34% +28.20% +5.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £18.72
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £56.82 £35.01
% change year-on-year -63.04% +62.27% +2.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quality Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +42 17 £200 -46.67% 35
East Midlands +23 9 £575 -11.54% 17
Quality Management
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (18.52%) Simulink
1 5 (18.52%) Stateflow
1 5 (18.52%) TargetLink
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP QM
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (14.81%) SAN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) LAN
2 3 (11.11%) VLAN
2 3 (11.11%) VoIP
2 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) Subversion
General
1 10 (37.04%) Automotive
2 6 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 5 (18.52%) Aerospace
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Programmer
1 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Forensic Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) EMC Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) SAP QM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Driving Licence
2 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Clustering
3 3 (11.11%) Digital Media
3 3 (11.11%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) AIX
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Solaris
3 3 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) QMS
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Validation
2 8 (29.63%) Verification and Validation
3 7 (25.93%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Internal Audit
4 6 (22.22%) Project Management
4 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (18.52%) Black-Box Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Functional Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 5 (18.52%) Integration Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Line Management
5 5 (18.52%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Software Audit
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
5 5 (18.52%) UML
5 5 (18.52%) White-Box Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) C
1 5 (18.52%) MATLAB
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
2 5 (18.52%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (18.52%) ISO 26262
2 5 (18.52%) MISRA
2 5 (18.52%) MISRA C
3 3 (11.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 3 (11.11%) ISO17020
4 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.70%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (11.11%) Autotask
2 3 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Brocade
1 4 (14.81%) Cisco
1 4 (14.81%) EMC
2 3 (11.11%) Apple
2 3 (11.11%) Datto
2 3 (11.11%) HP
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Symantec
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba