Defect Management Contracts in Scotland

Defect Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 159 162
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 11 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.14% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.15% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 12
10th Percentile £421 £424 £363
25th Percentile £507 £489 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £444
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +32.32% +18.40%
75th Percentile £713 £647 £488
90th Percentile £738 £664 £526
UK median daily rate £450 £502 £425
% change year-on-year -10.36% +18.12% +5.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Scotland

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Scotland

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Scotland

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in Scotland

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh +48 10 £551 +0.09%
Lanarkshire - 1 £725 -
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OCI
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Test Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Test Leader
2 3 (27.27%) UAT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Equities
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Integration Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
4 5 (45.45%) Test Management
5 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Regression Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Test Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
6 3 (27.27%) ERP
6 3 (27.27%) Order to Cash
6 3 (27.27%) Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (27.27%) RBAC
6 3 (27.27%) Record to Report
6 3 (27.27%) Smoke Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
7 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (18.18%) Component Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISEB
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (18.18%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Blue Prism
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft