Quality Management Contracts

Quality Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Quality Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Quality Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 406 545
Rank change year-on-year +35 +139 +11
Contract jobs citing Quality Management 236 301 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.60% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 194 209
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -1.14%
75th Percentile £606 £671 £638
90th Percentile £688 £721 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £530 £427
% change year-on-year -6.98% +24.24% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 7
10th Percentile £14.91 £54.18 £17.75
25th Percentile £16.25 - £19.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +92.25% +1.14%
75th Percentile £56.25 - £42.58
90th Percentile £58.75 £73.60 £50.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% +241.46% -43.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quality Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 15 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 9 June 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 +68 214 £500 -9.09% 389
UK excluding London +45 133 £493 -6.98% 359
London +45 72 £594 +8.05% 64
Work from Home +62 71 £500 -7.41% 98
North of England +68 67 £493 -1.40% 79
North West +46 54 £493 -5.19% 45
South East -8 25 £550 -18.46% 76
Midlands +30 22 £483 +28.67% 68
West Midlands +19 13 £200 -46.67% 43
North East - 10 £600 - 19
East Midlands +14 9 £575 - 25
South West +2 7 £490 -20.78% 47
East of England -3 7 £550 +83.33% 38
Scotland +31 5 £425 +11.48% 38
Yorkshire +10 5 £600 +36.36% 19

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 2 (0.85%) Confluence
1 2 (0.85%) Documentum
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.39%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.12%) Simulink
5 5 (2.12%) Stateflow
5 5 (2.12%) TargetLink
6 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (8.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.24%) SAP QM
3 7 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.54%) SAP PP
5 4 (1.69%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (1.27%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.85%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.42%) HFM
8 1 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.42%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.42%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.42%) SAP PP-PI
8 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.75%) Azure
2 14 (5.93%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.69%) WhatsApp
5 3 (1.27%) AWS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Stack
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.85%) GCP
6 2 (0.85%) OCI
6 2 (0.85%) Veeva
7 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.39%) WAN
2 7 (2.97%) Firewall
2 7 (2.97%) LAN
2 7 (2.97%) VLAN
2 7 (2.97%) VoIP
2 7 (2.97%) VPN
2 7 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (1.69%) SAN
4 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.20%) Metadata
2 16 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.93%) Power BI
4 10 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.97%) MySQL
5 7 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.69%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.69%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.85%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) DB2
8 1 (0.42%) Essbase
8 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.97%) ERwin
1 7 (2.97%) Git
1 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (2.12%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.12%) Subversion
3 4 (1.69%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.85%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.42%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 94 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (19.07%) Finance
4 24 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.20%) Banking
5 17 (7.20%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.66%) Automotive
7 10 (4.24%) Legal
8 9 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.54%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.54%) Retail
10 6 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (13.14%) Analyst
2 29 (12.29%) Consultant
3 19 (8.05%) Architect
4 17 (7.20%) SAP Consultant
5 16 (6.78%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.93%) Capacity Manager
6 14 (5.93%) Data Architect
6 14 (5.93%) Problem Manager
6 14 (5.93%) SAP QM Consultant
7 12 (5.08%) Availability Manager
7 12 (5.08%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 12 (5.08%) Data Analyst
8 10 (4.24%) Governance Analyst
8 10 (4.24%) Governance Manager
9 9 (3.81%) Portfolio Manager
9 9 (3.81%) Senior
10 8 (3.39%) Software Asset Manager
10 8 (3.39%) Software Manager
11 7 (2.97%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.27%) React Native
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.85%) PySpark
2 2 (0.85%) YAML
3 1 (0.42%) BAPI
3 1 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.41%) Management Information System
2 32 (13.56%) Virtual Team
3 11 (4.66%) CMDB
3 11 (4.66%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.97%) Clustering
5 6 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.69%) Life Science
7 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (1.27%) HP Storage
8 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.85%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) FMCG
9 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.66%) Windows
2 10 (4.24%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) Mac OS
3 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
3 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.69%) AIX
5 4 (1.69%) Solaris
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.34%) Project Management
3 46 (19.49%) Mentoring
4 45 (19.07%) Service Management
4 45 (19.07%) Statistics
5 40 (16.95%) Agile
6 35 (14.83%) Data Governance
7 32 (13.56%) ITIL
8 29 (12.29%) Problem Management
9 28 (11.86%) Virtual Team Management
10 27 (11.44%) Data Management
10 27 (11.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 24 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.75%) Data Modelling
12 23 (9.75%) QMS
13 21 (8.90%) Migration
13 21 (8.90%) Project Delivery
14 20 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.47%) Time Management
15 19 (8.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.78%) SQL
2 11 (4.66%) C
3 10 (4.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.54%) C++
5 5 (2.12%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.12%) Python
6 2 (0.85%) ABAP
7 1 (0.42%) Bash
7 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 80 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.93%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.25%) Degree
4 11 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.27%) PMP
7 2 (0.85%) CISM
7 2 (0.85%) CISSP
7 2 (0.85%) PhD
7 2 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.85%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.42%) APMP
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) CCNP
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.42%) PgMP
8 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (26.69%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.75%) GDPR
3 17 (7.20%) QA
4 13 (5.51%) PMO
5 8 (3.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (2.54%) ISO 9001
7 5 (2.12%) AUTOSAR
7 5 (2.12%) ISO 26262
7 5 (2.12%) MISRA
7 5 (2.12%) MISRA C
8 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (1.27%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.85%) GxP
10 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 7 (2.97%) Active Directory
1 7 (2.97%) Hyper-V
1 7 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (2.97%) Autotask
1 7 (2.97%) Failover Clustering
1 7 (2.97%) Jamf Pro
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (2.97%) SCCM
2 4 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (1.27%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (1.27%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.27%) Terraform
4 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (13.14%) SAP
2 22 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.78%) Oracle
4 8 (3.39%) Informatica
4 8 (3.39%) VMware
5 7 (2.97%) Datto
5 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.54%) Apple
6 6 (2.54%) Ariba
6 6 (2.54%) HP
7 5 (2.12%) Cisco
8 4 (1.69%) Brocade
8 4 (1.69%) EMC
8 4 (1.69%) Facebook
8 4 (1.69%) Instagram
8 4 (1.69%) Liquidlogic
8 4 (1.69%) Siebel
9 3 (1.27%) Databricks
9 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.27%) Splunk