Defect Manager Contracts

Defect Manager
UK

The median Defect Manager daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 711 837
Rank change year-on-year +132 +126 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Defect Manager 12 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.012% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.013% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile - £333 £416
25th Percentile £363 £363 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.41% +16.06%
75th Percentile £588 £519 £547
90th Percentile - £530 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £413 £511
% change year-on-year +15.15% -19.28% +13.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Defect Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Defect Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +117 12 £563 +25.00%
UK excluding London +70 8 £475 +15.15%
Work from Home +133 5 £575 -
London +104 4 £563 +9.76%
East of England +13 4 £375 -
South East - 4 £575 -

Defect Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Defect Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Defect Manager in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (58.33%) JIRA
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
4 5 (41.67%) Confluence
5 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 3 (25.00%) Release Management
6 3 (25.00%) V-Model
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) SDLC
7 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (16.67%) SAP
7 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) Electronics
7 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
7 2 (16.67%) Finance
7 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
7 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (16.67%) Marketing
8 1 (8.33%) QA
8 1 (8.33%) Test Management
8 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (8.33%) ERP
8 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Oracle

Defect Manager Skill Set
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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Release Management
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) V-Model
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 1 (8.33%) ERP
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow