Defect Tracking Contracts in the West Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 134 174
Rank change year-on-year +26 +40 -43
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.085% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.096% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £471 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +4.72% +16.13% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Defect Tracking 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,088 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 88.62% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,429 2,350
10th Percentile £275 £263 £271
25th Percentile £368 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 49 68
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +9.39% +0.55%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.13 £19.59
90th Percentile £58.00 £48.75 £20.96
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Birmingham - 3 £600 -
Coventry - 2 £450 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
1 2 (40.00%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce