Bug Management Contracts in England

Bug Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bug Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bug Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 - 648
Rank change year-on-year - - +122
Contract jobs citing Bug Management 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Bug 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,228 32,110 45,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,553 21,055 31,791
10th Percentile £309 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 2,255 1,587
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.95 £10.94
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Bug Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bug Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bug Management in England

Bug Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bug Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Bug Management in England

Bug Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bug Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bug Management in England

Bug Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bug Management within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South West - 1 - -
Bug Management
UK

Bug Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared