Defect Management Contracts in the North West

Defect Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 145 165
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.38% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.41% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £257 £400 £337
25th Percentile £267 £438 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £289 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -42.25% +11.73% +27.86%
75th Percentile £317 £558 £497
90th Percentile £329 £605 £608
England median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,377 2,894 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.61% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 2,058 2,615
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Manchester +16 3 £253 -49.50% 1
Cheshire +5 2 £325 - 1
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) Commercetools
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Management
1 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (20.00%) API Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce