QAD Contracts

QAD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of QAD products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QAD over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within QAD, Inc.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 563 667
Rank change year-on-year +19 +104 +191
Contract jobs citing QAD 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.051% 0.006% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £292 - -
25th Percentile £351 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.73%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £255 - -

All Vendors
UK

QAD falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,618 17,071 23,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.38% 43.65% 44.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,536 10,654 15,395
10th Percentile £276 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 809 855 656
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.57 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.62 £18.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -30.28% +82.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.60 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year -18.85% -14.86% +63.05%

QAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QAD in the UK

QAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QAD in the UK

QAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QAD over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QAD in the UK

QAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QAD in the UK

QAD
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QAD within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 8 £450 - 4
London - 5 £475 - 2
Work from Home - 4 £353 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £255 - 2
Midlands - 2 £255 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £255 - 1
South West - 1 - -

QAD
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) LSMW
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Service Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) EDI
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Service Design
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) JD Edwards
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP