Defect Tracking Contracts in the Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 126 151
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +47
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.19% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.23% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
England median daily rate £405 £471 £450
% change year-on-year -14.06% +4.72% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Defect Tracking 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 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking 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 Tracking in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking 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 Tracking in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking 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 Tracking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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 +9 2 £425 -5.56% 2
Defect Tracking
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) OAT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP