Quality Manager Contracts

Quality Manager
UK

The median Quality Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 679 839
Rank change year-on-year +110 +160 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Manager 10 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.035% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.037% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 12
10th Percentile £268 £376 -
25th Percentile £269 £480 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £508
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +13.30% +11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £601 £593
90th Percentile £750 £644 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £456 £433
% change year-on-year -4.11% +5.49% +1.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Quality Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Quality Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Manager in the UK

Quality Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Manager in the UK

Quality Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Manager in the UK

Quality Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Manager in the UK

Quality Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Manager 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 +106 9 £475 -17.39% 70
UK excluding London +68 7 £438 -4.11% 63
Midlands +31 4 £485 -7.71% 14
Work from Home +109 2 £475 -20.83% 21
London +103 2 £488 -15.22% 12
West Midlands +32 2 £700 +33.33% 8
East Midlands - 2 £269 - 6
East of England - 2 £600 - 4
North of England +25 1 £275 - 15
Yorkshire +20 1 £275 - 7

Quality Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Quality Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Quality Manager in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) QA
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Law
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) HNC
4 2 (20.00%) HND
4 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (20.00%) Master Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) People Management
4 2 (20.00%) Conflict Management
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Confluence
5 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (10.00%) System Testing
5 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills

Quality Manager Skill Set
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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Law
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Conflict Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) People Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Statistics
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) HNC
1 2 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) SAP