Quality Management System (QMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for QMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QMS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 610 788
Rank change year-on-year +78 +178 -105
Contract jobs citing QMS 39 77 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.14% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 38
10th Percentile £115 £363 £426
25th Percentile £300 £489 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% -2.40% +24.88%
75th Percentile £561 £656 £688
90th Percentile £583 £679 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £562 £550
% change year-on-year -26.60% +2.18% +32.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £11.79 - -
25th Percentile £18.41 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.24% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £41.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

QMS 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

QMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QMS in the UK

QMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QMS in the UK

QMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QMS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QMS in the UK

QMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QMS in the UK

QMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QMS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QMS in the UK

QMS
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QMS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +82 37 £413 -32.60% 216
UK excluding London +41 35 £413 -26.60% 204
South East +39 15 £413 -26.60% 44
Work from Home +105 9 £413 -25.00% 40
North of England +40 9 £115 -67.14% 35
North West +28 9 £115 -67.14% 16
Midlands +17 9 £575 - 42
West Midlands +19 5 - - 20
London +89 4 £500 -23.08% 31
East Midlands +12 4 £575 - 22
Scotland +33 2 - - 20

QMS
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Simulink
1 5 (12.82%) Stateflow
1 5 (12.82%) TargetLink
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (10.26%) TrackWise
3 3 (7.69%) SAP QM
4 1 (2.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (10.26%) SAN
2 2 (5.13%) MQTT
3 1 (2.56%) 2G
3 1 (2.56%) 3G
3 1 (2.56%) 4G
3 1 (2.56%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) EDMS
2 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.82%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Subversion
3 2 (5.13%) ClearCase
3 2 (5.13%) ClearQuest
4 1 (2.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (15.38%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Automotive
3 5 (12.82%) Publishing
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Project Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Control Systems Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Digital Project Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
2 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) QA Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) SAP Manager
4 3 (7.69%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (5.13%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Assistant
5 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.82%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.26%) Life Science
3 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.69%) HP Storage
4 3 (7.69%) LIMS
5 2 (5.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (5.13%) IoT
5 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.13%) Robotics
5 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) AIX
2 4 (10.26%) Solaris
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Quality Management
2 21 (53.85%) Agile
3 10 (25.64%) Project Management
3 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
3 10 (25.64%) Validation
4 9 (23.08%) Scrum
5 8 (20.51%) Sprint Backlog
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) DevOps
6 7 (17.95%) E-Commerce
6 7 (17.95%) Software Testing
7 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (15.38%) Change Management
7 6 (15.38%) Kanban
7 6 (15.38%) OO
7 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.82%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Verification and Validation
8 5 (12.82%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) C
2 6 (15.38%) C++
3 5 (12.82%) MATLAB
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 5 (12.82%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (12.82%) ISO 26262
2 5 (12.82%) ISO 9001
2 5 (12.82%) MISRA
2 5 (12.82%) MISRA C
3 4 (10.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (7.69%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (7.69%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) SAP
2 5 (12.82%) Adobe
2 5 (12.82%) HP
3 4 (10.26%) Brocade
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) EMC
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 3 (7.69%) Symantec
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.56%) Ericsson
6 1 (2.56%) Mavenir
6 1 (2.56%) Remedy
6 1 (2.56%) Sparx