QMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Management System (QMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 394 495
Rank change year-on-year +31 +101 -67
Contract jobs citing QMS 36 44 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.19% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 15
10th Percentile £115 £363 £404
25th Percentile £300 £386 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.25% +3.09% +32.53%
75th Percentile £562 £612 £681
90th Percentile £585 £614 £703
UK median daily rate £431 £612 £625
% change year-on-year -29.53% -2.08% +24.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £11.79 - -
25th Percentile £19.88 - -
Median hourly rate £53.25 £41.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £41.00 -
% change year-on-year +29.88% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

QMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QMS in the UK excluding London

QMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QMS in the UK excluding London

QMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QMS in the UK excluding London

QMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QMS in the UK excluding London

QMS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QMS in the UK excluding London

QMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +19 15 £413 -26.60% 54
North of England +34 10 £115 -67.14% 38
North West +27 10 £115 -67.14% 25
Midlands +19 9 £575 - 38
West Midlands +15 5 - - 21
East Midlands +12 4 £575 - 17
Scotland +33 2 - - 23
QMS
UK

QMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Simulink
1 5 (13.89%) Stateflow
1 5 (13.89%) TargetLink
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (11.11%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (5.56%) MQTT
3 1 (2.78%) 2G
3 1 (2.78%) 3G
3 1 (2.78%) 4G
3 1 (2.78%) Link 16
3 1 (2.78%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) JIRA
2 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Subversion
3 1 (2.78%) ClearCase
3 1 (2.78%) ClearQuest
3 1 (2.78%) Mercurial
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (16.67%) Retail
3 5 (13.89%) Automotive
3 5 (13.89%) Publishing
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Avionics
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Military
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Digital Project Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) QA Specialist
4 4 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) SAP Manager
5 3 (8.33%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
6 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) Life Science
4 3 (8.33%) HP Storage
5 2 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (5.56%) IoT
5 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.56%) Robotics
5 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) AIX
2 4 (11.11%) Solaris
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Quality Management
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) Project Management
4 10 (27.78%) Validation
5 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
5 7 (19.44%) DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) E-Commerce
5 7 (19.44%) Software Testing
5 7 (19.44%) Sprint Backlog
6 6 (16.67%) Change Management
6 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Functional Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Line Management
7 5 (13.89%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) OO
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) C
2 6 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (13.89%) MATLAB
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) Degree
4 5 (13.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (13.89%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (13.89%) ISO 26262
2 5 (13.89%) ISO 9001
2 5 (13.89%) MISRA
2 5 (13.89%) MISRA C
3 4 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (8.33%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (8.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) SAP
2 5 (13.89%) Adobe
3 4 (11.11%) Brocade
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) EMC
3 4 (11.11%) HP
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Symantec
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.78%) Ericsson
6 1 (2.78%) Mavenir
6 1 (2.78%) Remedy