Defect Management Contracts in the City of London

Defect Management
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 168 194
Rank change year-on-year +49 +26 -53
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.11% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £445 - £534
25th Percentile £475 £463 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -24.00% +63.93%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £678
90th Percentile - - £706
Central London median daily rate £500 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% +63.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Defect Management 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the City of London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the City of London

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Boomi
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) People Management
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Transition Management
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) ABAP
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Dell