Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Defect Management
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 1.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West London median daily rate - £455 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 36 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 97.30% 80.00% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 44
10th Percentile £364 £172 £211
25th Percentile £423 £263 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% -16.60%
75th Percentile £704 £475 £581
90th Percentile £725 £575 £634
West London median daily rate £538 £407 £500
% change year-on-year +32.06% -18.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £16.69 - £15.80
25th Percentile £19.42 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £19.20 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +6.67% -34.55%
75th Percentile £21.30 - £30.16
90th Percentile £21.46 - £31.79
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -49.22%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

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

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 4 March 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
Uxbridge - 1 - - 1
Defect Management
West London

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle