Defect Management Contracts in the East of England

Defect Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 113
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.24% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.44% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £326 £278 £425
25th Percentile £356 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £313 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -34.21% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £400 £700
90th Percentile £594 £468 -
England median daily rate £438 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +7.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,115 1,350 1,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.42% 83.59% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 514 962
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £373 £307 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 502 351
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.94 £60.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the East of England

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the East of England

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the East of England

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the East of England

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Hertfordshire +6 2 £469 +50.00% 2
Essex - 1 £413 -
Defect Management
England

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

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Manager
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM