Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Defect Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 70 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.061% 0.28% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £433 £431 £488
% change year-on-year +0.29% -11.54% -23.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,315 645 1,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.63% 89.96% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 474 709
10th Percentile £350 £327 £386
25th Percentile £468 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £660 £624 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 36 155
10th Percentile £13.19 £20.04 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £29.38 £22.93
Median hourly rate £25.00 £59.13 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -57.72% +3.10% +14.70%
75th Percentile £48.88 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £60.90 - £76.18
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -37.78% -5.26%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle