Defect Management Contracts in Central London

Defect Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 126 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 +22
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.37% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.41% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile £463 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £488
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +16.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +5 6 £475 -13.64% 1
Defect Management
London

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Desktop Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle