Defect Management Contracts in London

Defect Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 443 469
Rank change year-on-year +110 +26 -67
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 60 62 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.25% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 95
10th Percentile £335 £307 £333
25th Percentile £411 £417 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £606 £525
90th Percentile £649 £669 £575
England median daily rate £450 £535 £438
% change year-on-year -15.89% +22.29% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,808 24,326 35,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.98% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,340 17,488 26,268
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.95 £63.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Central London +47 8 £450 - 2
North London - 1 £300 -
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP PM
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (1.67%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (5.00%) AWS
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Boomi
6 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) JIRA
2 11 (18.33%) LoadRunner
3 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
4 6 (10.00%) JMeter
5 4 (6.67%) Git
5 4 (6.67%) NeoLoad
5 4 (6.67%) Selenium
5 4 (6.67%) TestRail
6 3 (5.00%) SpecFlow
7 2 (3.33%) FitNesse
7 2 (3.33%) Gatling
7 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.67%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.67%) Postman
8 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (36.67%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Banking
5 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Law
6 4 (6.67%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Lead
2 11 (18.33%) Test Leader
3 9 (15.00%) Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Test Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Test Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Testing Manager
5 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Tester
6 5 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Test Leader
6 5 (8.33%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Manual Test Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Test Lead
8 3 (5.00%) Defect Manager
8 3 (5.00%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) QA Tester
8 3 (5.00%) Report Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) ABAP Consultant
9 2 (3.33%) Consultant
9 2 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) ADO
2 2 (3.33%) BAPI
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) Playwright
3 1 (1.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.67%) EPoS
3 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Unix
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 21 (35.00%) Test Automation
3 19 (31.67%) Test Management
4 16 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 15 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 15 (25.00%) Project Management
5 15 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 14 (23.33%) Agile
6 14 (23.33%) DevOps
6 14 (23.33%) Performance Testing
6 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 10 (16.67%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Architectural Design
10 8 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Waterfall
11 7 (11.67%) Integration Testing
12 6 (10.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) ABAP
3 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) Degree
3 4 (6.67%) ISEB
3 4 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (5.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Basel III
2 2 (3.33%) COREP
2 2 (3.33%) FINREP
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) SAP
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (6.67%) iManage
3 4 (6.67%) Intapp
3 4 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Citrix
4 1 (1.67%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.67%) HP
4 1 (1.67%) Workday