Defect Manager Contracts in England

Defect Manager
UK > England

The median Defect Manager daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 529 648
Rank change year-on-year +52 +119 +122
Contract jobs requiring a Defect Manager 8 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.035% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.038% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 5
10th Percentile £404 - £333
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £519
90th Percentile - - £530
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -6.82% +22.22% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Defect Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Defect Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
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 Defect Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +38 4 £481 -14.44%
East of England +26 1 £413 +10.00%
Defect Manager
UK

Defect Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Defect Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Defect Manager in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Defect Management
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Charles River
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
3 3 (37.50%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Conflict Management
4 2 (25.00%) SAP
4 2 (25.00%) SAP HR
4 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) Front Office
4 2 (25.00%) Back Office
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) OpenText
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

Defect Manager Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Back Office
3 2 (25.00%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Defect Management
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Charles River
2 2 (25.00%) OpenText
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft