Defect Management Contracts in Milton Keynes

Defect Management
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 27 37 72
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.31% 1.79% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.11% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £357
25th Percentile £325 £463 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £408 £488 £476
90th Percentile £444 - £492
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £350 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Milton Keynes

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Milton Keynes

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Milton Keynes

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) QARun
1 2 (50.00%) WinRunner
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft