Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Defect Tracking
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.070% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile £413 - £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £438 - £422
90th Percentile - - £461
South East median daily rate £375 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Defect Tracking 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 1,183 648 1,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.38% 88.52% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 458 698
10th Percentile £325 £356 £374
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -3.08% +8.10%
75th Percentile £650 £616 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 37 120
10th Percentile £14.60 £20.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.50 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% - +26.44%
75th Percentile £38.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £53.05 £75.00 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Portsmouth - 1 £425 - 1
Defect Tracking
South East

Defect Tracking
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (100.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Housing Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NEC