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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 166 191
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Quality Management 12 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.47% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 13
10th Percentile £508 £404 £463
25th Percentile £513 £416 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £546 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -21.96% +43.59%
75th Percentile £569 £609 £721
90th Percentile £725 £723 -
England median daily rate £525 £497 £575
% change year-on-year +5.74% -13.65% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.10
Median hourly rate - - £73.60
75th Percentile - - £76.10
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +65.68% -32.14% +112.12%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,174 4,003 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.81% 82.52% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,441 3,384
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £667 £700 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 315 239
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.45
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.09 £64.13
90th Percentile £71.40 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

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

Quality Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the South East over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the South East

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +6 7 £550 -21.03% 29
Hampshire +19 5 £550 +0.69% 8
Berkshire +9 3 £650 +1.96% 15
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £518 -30.35% 4
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP EWM
2 1 (8.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (8.33%) SAP QM
2 1 (8.33%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Alation
1 2 (16.67%) Collibra
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) PMO Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Availability Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP EWM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP QM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 4 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Project Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
6 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Culture Change
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Enablement
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) PMO
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) P3O
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (8.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Broadcom
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Computacenter
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Niku
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Symantec