Defect Management Contracts in the City of London

Defect Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +50 +20
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 6 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.32% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £435 -
25th Percentile £463 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 £550 -
90th Percentile - £565 -
Central London median daily rate £475 £450 -
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,630 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.25% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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:

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