Defect Management Contracts in Reading

Defect Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 70 96
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 -30
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.084% 1.63% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 1.82% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £719 £379
25th Percentile - - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £721 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +55.89% -7.50%
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile - - £556
Berkshire median daily rate - £721 £388
% change year-on-year - +86.06% -20.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,074 936 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.18% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 620 824
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Reading

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in Reading

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA