Quality Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Quality Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 129 117
Rank change year-on-year +35 -12 +39
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 8 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.60% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.68% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 24
10th Percentile £228 £432 £662
25th Percentile £297 £625 £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £743 £695
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +6.91% +29.30%
75th Percentile £494 £823 £721
90th Percentile £528 £950 -
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -22.73% -18.52% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £21.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +28 6 £182 -76.52% 8
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £550 -25.98% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 4
Quality Management
South East

Quality Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.50%) Chatbot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Retail
2 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) IT Manager
1 5 (62.50%) IT Operations Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Operations Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 2 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
1 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Balanced Scorecard
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Experience
1 5 (62.50%) Scorecard
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Self-Awareness
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) R
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CREST Certified
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Nexthink
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Talend