Defect Management Contracts in the Midlands

Defect Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 120 144
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +16
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 11 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.57% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 22
10th Percentile £413 £401 -
25th Percentile £434 £475 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £280
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +87.50% -30.86%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £464
90th Percentile £619 £999 £534
England median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the Midlands

Defect Management
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

Defect Management
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 1 May 2025. 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 +12 10 £491 -6.43% 4
East Midlands +10 1 - - 2
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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) IDMS
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) CA Gen
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (9.09%) Toad
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (45.45%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
1 5 (45.45%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Strategy
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) Test Management
4 7 (63.64%) Scrum
5 6 (54.55%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (45.45%) Test Assurance
6 5 (45.45%) User Stories
7 4 (36.36%) Change Management
7 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
8 2 (18.18%) DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 1 (9.09%) Microservices
9 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) COBOL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) HP
2 5 (45.45%) MuleSoft
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Micro Focus
4 1 (9.09%) webMethods