Quality Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Quality Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Quality Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 128 128
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +41
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 9 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.31% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £358 - £540
25th Percentile £388 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £588
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -48.94% +1.12%
75th Percentile £613 - £650
90th Percentile £775 - £689
England median daily rate £501 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -6.82% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,625 2,241 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.26% 83.71% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,408 1,590
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 69 107
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -11.11% +59.13%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.57 £53.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quality Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Quality Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the Midlands

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Quality Management

Quality Management
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 7 November 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
West Midlands -31 6 £588 +95.83% 11
East Midlands - 2 £400 - 9
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CANalyzer
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SAP PP
2 1 (11.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CANoe
1 1 (11.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Electronics
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Architect
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Compliance Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Floorwalker
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Management Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Management Support
2 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Supply Chain Support
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) OLE
1 1 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
1 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Logistics
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (11.11%) Bill of Materials
6 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (11.11%) Production Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) ISO 26262
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google