Defect Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Defect Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 111 119 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +46
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 10 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £310 £420 £428
25th Percentile £363 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £471 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -18.17% +22.67%
75th Percentile £621 £575 £674
90th Percentile £638 £592 £779
Central London median daily rate £425 £471 £575
% change year-on-year -9.67% -18.17% +21.05%

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 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the City of London

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Algo Collateral
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) PMI
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CBAP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) ISO 20022
3 1 (10.00%) PSD2
3 1 (10.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) SmartStream
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) Workday