Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CAPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CAPA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 697 859
Rank change year-on-year +120 +162 -190
Contract jobs citing CAPA 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.005% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.006% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £11.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £11.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CAPA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

CAPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CAPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CAPA in the UK

CAPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CAPA.

Daily rate trend for CAPA in the UK

CAPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CAPA.

Hourly rate trend for CAPA in the UK

CAPA
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAPA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +113 2 - - 31
UK excluding London +67 1 - - 29
North of England +25 1 - - 8
North West +18 1 - - 5
London - 1 - - 5

CAPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) QMS
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP