Defect Management Contracts in Central London

Defect Management
London > Central London

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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 175 205
Rank change year-on-year +49 +30 -44
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.33% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.12% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £365 - £534
25th Percentile £388 - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.93%
75th Percentile £525 - £678
90th Percentile £555 - £706
London median daily rate £463 £550 £471
% change year-on-year -15.91% +16.90% -5.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Defect 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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London +51 7 £500 - 2
Defect Management
London

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Boomi
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Defect Tracking
3 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) People Management
5 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) SDET
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) V-Model
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) ABAP
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Dell