Defect Management Contracts in the Midlands

Defect Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 140 151
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 13 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.75% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 36
10th Percentile £401 - £369
25th Percentile £475 £231 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £280 £405
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -30.86% +19.12%
75th Percentile £538 £433 £469
90th Percentile £999 £534 £568
England median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £51.88
% change year-on-year - - +116.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West Midlands +36 12 £525 +26.51% 5
East Midlands +4 1 £500 +110.53%
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
1 1 (7.69%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) TestRail
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Test Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Team Leader
3 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Assurance Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (38.46%) Test Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Test Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) Test Assurance
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Management
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Ruby
2 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 3 (23.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) HP
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow