Quality Management Contracts in the South West

Quality Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 138 150
Rank change year-on-year +51 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 27 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.60% 0.19% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.23% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £519 £461 £253
25th Percentile £531 £468 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £483 £518
Median % change year-on-year +19.04% -6.62% +19.78%
75th Percentile £601 £495 £725
90th Percentile - £500 £733
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £58.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.22 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,654 3,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 83.02% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,694 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 336 332
10th Percentile £18.42 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.08 £27.50 £16.89
Median hourly rate £62.75 £54.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -12.20% +26.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the South West

Quality Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the South West

Quality Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the South West

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quality Management in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Management in the South West

Quality Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +52 19 £601 +29.84% 7
Bristol +21 4 £525 +4.17% 13
Devon - 4 - - 5
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
General
1 20 (74.07%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Capacity Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Availability Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 8 (29.63%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Management Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Mechanical Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Network Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Report Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Service Level Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Statistics
2 19 (70.37%) ITIL
2 19 (70.37%) Service Management
3 18 (66.67%) Problem Management
4 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (37.04%) Availability Management
5 10 (37.04%) Capacity Management
5 10 (37.04%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 10 (37.04%) Planning and Forecasting
5 10 (37.04%) Time Management
6 9 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
7 8 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (29.63%) Data Analysis
7 8 (29.63%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (25.93%) Service Catalogue
9 3 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
10 2 (7.41%) Data Governance
10 2 (7.41%) Data Security
11 1 (3.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (70.37%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (62.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) SLA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 9001
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Functional Safety
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Kibana
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) logstash
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform