Quality Management Contracts in the North of England

Quality Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 119 181
Rank change year-on-year -16 +62 +31
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 29 65 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 1.40% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.64% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 51 20
10th Percentile £329 £415 £378
25th Percentile £365 £478 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £493 £470
Median % change year-on-year +16.63% +4.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £506 £540
90th Percentile £594 £588 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +493.72% - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £21.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +221.43% -70.00% +92.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,945 3,961 5,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.79% 85.44% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,893 2,405 3,586
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 360 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £16.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £17.72 £28.85
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.58% +50.87%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £45.05
90th Percentile £78.75 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the North of England

Quality Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the North of England

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the North of England

Quality Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the North of England

Quality Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
North West -18 23 £580 +17.65% 33
Yorkshire +12 4 £370 -38.33% 23
North East -10 2 £575 -4.17% 7
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 21 (72.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (34.48%) SAP PP
3 5 (17.24%) SAP LE
4 2 (6.90%) SAP MM
5 1 (3.45%) SAP PM
5 1 (3.45%) SAP QM
5 1 (3.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
2 2 (6.90%) GIS
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) MSDE
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.45%) DTS
3 1 (3.45%) SAP BW
3 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
General
1 18 (62.07%) Manufacturing
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Aerospace
3 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Consultant
2 12 (41.38%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) SAP PP Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) SAP QM Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) SAP WM Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Supply Chain Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) ADO
1 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
1 2 (6.90%) PySpark
1 2 (6.90%) SAP PI
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.45%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Life Science
2 6 (20.69%) Virtual Team
3 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Clustering
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Replication
5 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Logistics
2 8 (27.59%) Inventory Management
3 6 (20.69%) Virtual Team Management
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (17.24%) Supply Chain Planning
4 5 (17.24%) Use Case
4 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) Analytics
6 3 (10.34%) Business Transformation
6 3 (10.34%) Community of Practice
6 3 (10.34%) Data Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
7 2 (6.90%) Backlog Management
7 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Perfmon
1 1 (3.45%) SCOM
1 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Ariba
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) VMware