Defect Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Defect Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 104 125
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 -23
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.22% 0.079% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.083% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £403 - £343
25th Percentile £500 £525 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £658 £575 £516
90th Percentile £713 - £566
Scotland median daily rate £563 £588 £451
% change year-on-year -4.26% +30.41% +20.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 1,200 1,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.33% 94.94% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 853 1,230
10th Percentile £221 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £471
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 16
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.59 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
% change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Equities
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Integration Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (50.00%) Test Management
5 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Test Planning
6 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Burndown Charts
7 2 (20.00%) Component Testing
7 2 (20.00%) ERP
7 2 (20.00%) Project Management
7 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (20.00%) TMMi
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft