QMS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Management System (QMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring QMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 335 467
Rank change year-on-year +37 +132 +148
Contract jobs citing QMS 6 10 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.065% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.074% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £300 £389
25th Percentile - £406 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £182 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year -57.80% -21.59% -2.22%
75th Percentile - £533 £597
90th Percentile - £588 £659
UK median daily rate £550 £431 £610
% change year-on-year +27.54% -29.30% -2.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QMS falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

QMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing QMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

QMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing QMS.

QMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing QMS.

QMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

QMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Expert
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (16.67%) Transformation Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Quality Management
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Internal Audit
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Behavioural Change
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 1 (16.67%) Culture Change
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Design for Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) HNC
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 13485
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Nexthink
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow