QMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Management System (QMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 382 485
Rank change year-on-year +37 +103 +17
Contract jobs citing QMS 24 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.17% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 7
10th Percentile £360 £450 £321
25th Percentile £363 £527 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% -2.18% +163.79%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £613
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £504
% change year-on-year -25.00% +19.11% -4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £30.40 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £36.63 £43.56 -
Median hourly rate £49.00 £52.50 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +41.40% +95.42%
75th Percentile £51.00 £54.69 -
90th Percentile - £65.55 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £52.50 £37.13
% change year-on-year -15.24% +41.40% +95.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +46 14 £420 -23.64% 19
North of England +30 5 £450 - 11
North West +26 4 £450 - 5
South West +21 3 £525 -2.42% 15
East Midlands +4 2 - - 7
Midlands +1 2 - - 17
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) IPX
1 2 (8.33%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) ClearCase
2 3 (12.50%) ClearQuest
2 3 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (8.33%) Mercurial
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (37.50%) Legal
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Military
5 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Avionics
6 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Aviation
7 1 (4.17%) Electronics
7 1 (4.17%) Korean Language
7 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Configuration Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) User Experience Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Junior Digital Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) AIX
2 9 (37.50%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (37.50%) Storage Management
2 8 (33.33%) Server Building
3 6 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Sprint Backlog
6 3 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (12.50%) Time Management
7 2 (8.33%) Active Listening
7 2 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
7 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (20.83%) C++
3 3 (12.50%) C
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Degree
5 2 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 2 (8.33%) Def Stans
2 2 (8.33%) PMO
3 1 (4.17%) APQC
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) KVM
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 9 (37.50%) IBM
2 9 (37.50%) Oracle
3 8 (33.33%) SolarWinds