Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Devon

Defect Management
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 33 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 0.61% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
South West median daily rate £450 £395 £425
% change year-on-year +13.92% -7.06% -5.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 174 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 87.20% 79.82% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 94 144
10th Percentile £145 £150 £316
25th Percentile £250 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £601 £674
90th Percentile £588 £685 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 5
10th Percentile £18.48 £40.25 £20.08
25th Percentile - £53.75 £31.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +73.33% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £28.43 - £64.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Devon

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Exeter +5 1 - -
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared