Defect Management Contracts in Birmingham

Defect Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Defect Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 62 71
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.78% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £531 £368 £299
25th Percentile £541 £384 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% +2.41% +5.40%
75th Percentile £641 £456 £449
90th Percentile £654 £468 £480
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £525 £415
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.51% +2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Defect Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Birmingham

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Birmingham

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle