Bug Management Contract Job Trends in England

Bug Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Bug Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bug Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.007% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £410 - -

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 25,240 28,355 37,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.09% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,025 17,607 26,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £316
25th Percentile £405 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £645 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,512 1,298 1,446
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.77 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%
75th Percentile £49.56 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bug Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bug Management

Bug Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bug Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bug Management

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 20 September 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
London - 2 £410 - 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) Tradeweb