Quality Management Contracts in the South East

Quality Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 165 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 +81
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 16 29 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.52% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.62% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 41
10th Percentile £228 £391 £425
25th Percentile £297 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £494 £753 £721
90th Percentile £528 £933 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £21.00 £56.82
% change year-on-year +221.43% -63.04% +56.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.71% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,749 3,576
10th Percentile £254 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 435 220
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.20
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.21
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +20 8 £425 -42.80% 13
Hampshire +23 6 - - 15
Berkshire +21 6 £182 -76.52% 6
Surrey +17 2 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £550 -25.98% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 3
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP IBP
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) SAP PP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Retail
3 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) IT Manager
1 5 (31.25%) IT Operations Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Operations Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Performance Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Data Manager
2 3 (18.75%) PMO Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Product Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
1 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Balanced Scorecard
1 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
1 5 (31.25%) Scorecard
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Management
3 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
3 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
3 3 (18.75%) Resource Management
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (12.50%) Bill of Materials
4 2 (12.50%) Business Case
4 2 (12.50%) Business Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Demand Management
4 2 (12.50%) Master Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (12.50%) Self-Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) R
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) PMO
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) P3O
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Nexthink
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Talend