Defect Management Contracts

Defect Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 512 508
Rank change year-on-year +73 -4 -27
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 159 208 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 138 259
10th Percentile £304 £280 £331
25th Percentile £372 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £507 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +19.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £623 £516
90th Percentile £688 £721 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £533 £420
% change year-on-year -12.68% +26.79% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile £19.25 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £49.50
75th Percentile £86.50 - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 - £51.88
% change year-on-year - - +116.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +76 129 £450 -14.29% 23
UK excluding London +15 71 £465 -12.68% 17
London +102 62 £450 -18.18% 9
Work from Home +101 50 £463 -7.50% 7
South East +7 16 £488 -25.00% 3
North of England +8 15 £438 -23.91% 3
Midlands +13 13 £525 +87.50% 3
West Midlands +38 12 £525 +26.51% 3
Scotland +40 11 £563 -4.26% 3
Yorkshire +20 10 £450 -14.29% 1
East of England +19 8 £375 -42.31% 3
South West +16 5 £533 +21.71% 1
North West +10 5 £289 -42.25% 2
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Wales +14 1 £210 -43.05%
East Midlands +4 1 £500 +110.53%

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (4.40%) Confluence
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Simulink
2 1 (0.63%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.14%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.26%) SAP MDM
4 2 (1.26%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.63%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.63%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.63%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.79%) Azure
2 19 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.03%) OCI
4 6 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (3.14%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (2.52%) AWS
6 4 (2.52%) SaaS
7 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.63%) Boomi
8 1 (0.63%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.63%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) PBX
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) Softswitch
2 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.26%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.63%) Big Data
5 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.63%) Metadata
5 1 (0.63%) MS Access
5 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (27.67%) JIRA
2 15 (9.43%) LoadRunner
3 11 (6.92%) JMeter
4 9 (5.66%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.40%) Selenium
6 6 (3.77%) Postman
7 5 (3.14%) Git
7 5 (3.14%) TestRail
8 4 (2.52%) Gatling
8 4 (2.52%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.52%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.26%) FitNesse
10 2 (1.26%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.63%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.63%) Appium
11 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.30%) Finance
3 17 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (8.81%) Banking
7 10 (6.29%) Marketing
8 9 (5.66%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.03%) Electronics
9 8 (5.03%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.40%) Retail
11 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.52%) Law
12 4 (2.52%) Legal
12 4 (2.52%) Military
13 3 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.26%) German Language
14 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (23.90%) Test Manager
2 30 (18.87%) Lead
3 29 (18.24%) Analyst
4 25 (15.72%) Test Analyst
5 19 (11.95%) Test Leader
6 14 (8.81%) Tester
7 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 8 (5.03%) Testing Manager
8 7 (4.40%) SAP Manager
8 7 (4.40%) SAP Test Manager
9 6 (3.77%) Consultant
9 6 (3.77%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.77%) Defect Manager
9 6 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Performance Test Leader
9 6 (3.77%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (3.14%) Manual Test Analyst
10 5 (3.14%) Service Analyst
11 4 (2.52%) QA Tester
11 4 (2.52%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.81%) ADO
2 7 (4.40%) .NET
3 4 (2.52%) BAPI
4 3 (1.89%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.26%) Middleware
5 2 (1.26%) Playwright
5 2 (1.26%) REST
5 2 (1.26%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.26%) SAP Basis
5 2 (1.26%) XML
6 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.63%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.63%) HTML
6 1 (0.63%) JSON
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.63%) PySpark
6 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.26%) Equities
3 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.26%) Life Science
3 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.26%) NHS
3 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.63%) EPoS
4 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.63%) IVR
4 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.63%) PMI
4 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.26%) Android
2 2 (1.26%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Unix
2 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 50 (31.45%) Test Automation
3 44 (27.67%) Test Management
4 43 (27.04%) Agile
5 39 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (24.53%) Test Strategy
6 30 (18.87%) DevOps
7 29 (18.24%) Test Scripting
8 28 (17.61%) Project Management
9 26 (16.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 26 (16.35%) Functional Testing
10 25 (15.72%) Scenario Testing
11 24 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (14.47%) Integration Testing
13 22 (13.84%) Migration
13 22 (13.84%) Test Planning
13 22 (13.84%) Waterfall
14 21 (13.21%) Regression Testing
15 20 (12.58%) Software Testing
16 19 (11.95%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.29%) SQL
2 6 (3.77%) Java
2 6 (3.77%) Python
3 5 (3.14%) ABAP
4 4 (2.52%) C#
5 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.89%) Ruby
5 3 (1.89%) VBA
6 2 (1.26%) C
6 2 (1.26%) C++
6 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (16.98%) ISTQB
2 18 (11.32%) Degree
3 15 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (4.40%) ISEB
7 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.14%) SAP Certification
9 4 (2.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.26%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (1.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.01%) QA
2 6 (3.77%) SLA
3 4 (2.52%) PMO
4 3 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.26%) Basel III
5 2 (1.26%) COREP
5 2 (1.26%) FINREP
5 2 (1.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.40%) HP ALM
2 6 (3.77%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (21.38%) SAP
2 24 (15.09%) Oracle
3 8 (5.03%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.77%) HP
5 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.14%) Workday
6 4 (2.52%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.52%) iManage
6 4 (2.52%) Intapp
6 4 (2.52%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.89%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.26%) Cisco
8 2 (1.26%) Ribbon
9 1 (0.63%) Ariba
9 1 (0.63%) Citrix
9 1 (0.63%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.63%) Cognos
9 1 (0.63%) Dell
9 1 (0.63%) Genesys