Quality Management Contracts

Quality Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 344 417
Rank change year-on-year -15 +73 +159
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 165 240 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.65% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 142 187
10th Percentile £338 £365 £350
25th Percentile £488 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +6.93%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £650
90th Percentile £675 £695 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +10.78% -0.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.91 £33.02
25th Percentile £48.00 £16.25 £50.22
Median hourly rate £67.50 £21.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% -70.00% +92.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.25 -
90th Percentile £72.61 £58.75 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £21.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% -70.00% +211.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quality Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +4 145 £550 +10.00% 333
UK excluding London -7 82 £550 +10.78% 237
London +20 59 £550 -8.33% 139
Work from Home -11 40 £573 +14.50% 134
North of England -19 28 £575 +16.63% 56
South West +61 27 £575 +17.40% 32
North West -22 23 £580 +17.65% 31
South East +41 16 £488 -11.36% 68
East of England +22 6 £615 +23.00% 27
West Midlands -1 4 £450 +125.00% 22
Midlands -7 4 £450 -10.00% 44
Yorkshire +13 3 £370 -38.33% 20
Scotland +7 3 £363 -14.71% 17
North East -8 2 £575 -4.17% 6

Quality Management
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.03%) SAS
2 4 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.82%) Confluence
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.21%) Documentum
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 54 (32.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (13.94%) SAP PP
3 11 (6.67%) SAP QM
4 7 (4.24%) SAP LE
4 7 (4.24%) SAP PM
4 7 (4.24%) SAP VC
5 6 (3.64%) SAP MII
6 5 (3.03%) SAP MM
7 4 (2.42%) SAP SD
8 3 (1.82%) SAP IBP
9 2 (1.21%) Actimize
9 2 (1.21%) SAP SCM
9 2 (1.21%) SAP SRM
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.61%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.61%) SAP GTS
10 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.61%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.88%) Azure
1 13 (7.88%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.45%) Snowflake
3 6 (3.64%) AWS
4 4 (2.42%) dbt
4 4 (2.42%) GitHub
5 3 (1.82%) Alation
5 3 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.82%) Collibra
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.61%) SaaS
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) Power BI
2 9 (5.45%) Metadata
3 8 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.64%) Tableau
5 4 (2.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.42%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.42%) Data Vault
5 4 (2.42%) QlikView
5 4 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.21%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.21%) DTS
7 2 (1.21%) GIS
7 2 (1.21%) MSDE
7 2 (1.21%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 4 (2.42%) Terragrunt
3 3 (1.82%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) LSMW
General
1 56 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.24%) Manufacturing
4 30 (18.18%) Finance
5 17 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (10.30%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (8.48%) Banking
8 10 (6.06%) Aerospace
9 9 (5.45%) Retail
10 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
11 7 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (3.64%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.42%) Law
14 3 (1.82%) Legal
15 2 (1.21%) Automotive
15 2 (1.21%) Back Office
15 2 (1.21%) Marketing
15 2 (1.21%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (23.03%) Consultant
2 32 (19.39%) SAP Consultant
3 21 (12.73%) Senior
4 16 (9.70%) Analyst
5 14 (8.48%) SAP PP Consultant
6 12 (7.27%) Capacity Manager
6 12 (7.27%) Lead
7 11 (6.67%) Availability Manager
7 11 (6.67%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 11 (6.67%) SAP QM Consultant
8 10 (6.06%) Data Analyst
8 10 (6.06%) IT Manager
8 10 (6.06%) Project Manager
8 10 (6.06%) Service Manager
9 9 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
11 7 (4.24%) Supply Chain Consultant
12 6 (3.64%) SAP PM Consultant
12 6 (3.64%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
12 6 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.82%) PySpark
2 2 (1.21%) .NET
2 2 (1.21%) ADO
2 2 (1.21%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.21%) SAP PI
2 2 (1.21%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.61%) Kafka
3 1 (0.61%) MIDP
3 1 (0.61%) OLE
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.61%) Pandas
3 1 (0.61%) Polars
3 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Life Science
2 10 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.85%) LIMS
3 8 (4.85%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.24%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.64%) PACS
6 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.42%) FMCG
7 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.82%) IoT
8 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.82%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.21%) Clustering
9 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.12%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (15.15%) ITIL
3 23 (13.94%) Data Analysis
4 22 (13.33%) Service Management
4 22 (13.33%) Statistics
5 21 (12.73%) Data Governance
5 21 (12.73%) Validation
6 20 (12.12%) Problem Management
7 19 (11.52%) Decision-Making
8 18 (10.91%) Agile
9 17 (10.30%) QMS
10 16 (9.70%) Analytics
10 16 (9.70%) Capacity Planning
10 16 (9.70%) Logistics
10 16 (9.70%) Project Delivery
10 16 (9.70%) Time Management
11 15 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.09%) Data Management
12 14 (8.48%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.91%) SQL
2 17 (10.30%) Python
3 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.61%) ABAP
4 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.61%) Bash
4 1 (0.61%) C++
4 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.12%) ITIL Certification
4 15 (9.09%) Degree
5 7 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.03%) EnCE
7 5 (3.03%) PMP
8 3 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.61%) HNC
10 1 (0.61%) MBA
10 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 27 (16.36%) QA
3 13 (7.88%) PMO
4 9 (5.45%) SLA
5 7 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 6 (3.64%) GDPR
6 6 (3.64%) ISO 9001
7 4 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.82%) GxP
8 3 (1.82%) P3O
9 2 (1.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.61%) NIST
10 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) EnCase
1 5 (3.03%) FTK
1 5 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
2 1 (0.61%) Kibana
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) logstash
2 1 (0.61%) Perfmon
2 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.61%) SCOM
2 1 (0.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (43.03%) SAP
2 9 (5.45%) Ariba
3 6 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.03%) Cellebrite
4 5 (3.03%) Nuix
5 4 (2.42%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.82%) Ab Initio
6 3 (1.82%) IBM
6 3 (1.82%) Informatica
6 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.21%) Databricks
7 2 (1.21%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.21%) OpenText
7 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.21%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) Niku
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.61%) Siemens
8 1 (0.61%) VMware