Defect Tracking Contracts in the Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 166 194
Rank change year-on-year +33 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.060% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £394 - £355
25th Percentile - - £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £625 - £494
90th Percentile - - £498
England median daily rate £471 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +4.72% +16.13% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Defect Tracking 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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,965 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.30% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,075 3,214
10th Percentile £235 £249 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £573
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 107 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.76 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +13.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +20 5 £450 -10.00% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
1 2 (40.00%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce