Defect Management Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Defect Management
South East > Home Counties

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 7.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £373 £488
% change year-on-year +20.81% -23.59% -31.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 92.86% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £500 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -8.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £649 - £572
90th Percentile £665 - £589
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.86% +1.49%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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%) SAP ERP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Test Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP