Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Defect Management
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
South London median daily rate £508 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 74 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.77% 89.16% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 51 55
10th Percentile £447 £313 £388
25th Percentile £482 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £533 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +4.41% -3.59%
75th Percentile £550 £632 £539
90th Percentile £728 £707 £567
South London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile £19.50 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.69% -18.77% -61.99%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Croydon

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA