Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Defect Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 127 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 11 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.58% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.28% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £310 £420 £428
25th Percentile £356 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £471 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -18.17% +21.05%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £674
90th Percentile £636 £592 £779
London median daily rate £441 £488 £543
% change year-on-year -9.54% -10.14% +3.33%

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 1,777 2,148 2,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.79% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,348 1,865
10th Percentile £331 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £806
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%
75th Percentile £36.00 £74.38 £52.88
90th Percentile £60.95 £124.75 £70.25
London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
% change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Central London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Central London

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Defect Management

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 6 November 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 +8 10 £425 -9.67% 14
Defect Management
London

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
1 2 (18.18%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Algo Collateral
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) NUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Payments Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) PMI
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CBAP
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) ISO 20022
3 1 (9.09%) PSD2
3 1 (9.09%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
2 1 (9.09%) SmartStream
2 1 (9.09%) UiPath
2 1 (9.09%) Workday