Defect Management Contracts in Manchester

Defect Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Defect Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.55% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.40% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £388 £254 £400
25th Percentile £425 £257 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £500
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -45.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £475 £288 £563
90th Percentile - - £613
North West median daily rate £425 £275 £500
% change year-on-year +54.55% -45.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 1,248 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.49% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 848 1,195
10th Percentile £312 £321 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Manchester

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Manchester

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in Manchester

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Manager
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) SAP