Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PQQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PQQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 717 830
Rank change year-on-year +127 +113 -
Contract jobs citing PQQ 8 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.004% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £653 £343
25th Percentile £663 £656 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +54.29% -
75th Percentile £688 £706 £550
90th Percentile - £718 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PQQ 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
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 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

PQQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PQQ in the UK

PQQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PQQ in the UK

PQQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PQQ in the UK

PQQ
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PQQ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +134 8 £675 - 32
South West - 8 £675 - 4
UK excluding London - 8 £675 - 22
Work from Home +130 1 £675 - 13

PQQ
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
2 7 (87.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) PBX
1 7 (87.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) Junos
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SDH
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Economy
1 7 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Architect
1 8 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Blackberry
1 7 (87.50%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 8 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 8 (100.00%) BPMN
1 8 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
1 8 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (87.50%) Customer Engagement
2 7 (87.50%) Digital Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 7 (87.50%) Zero Trust
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Boundary Protection
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) DV Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) HND
2 7 (87.50%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) CCNP
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (12.50%) HP ASE
5 1 (12.50%) JNCIA
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Google
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Nokia
2 7 (87.50%) Avaya
2 7 (87.50%) Ericsson
2 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 7 (87.50%) Ribbon
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Ciena
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto