Defect Management Contract Job Trends in the North East

Defect Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.43% 0.98% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £316 £348 -
25th Percentile £330 £390 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £460 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% - -
75th Percentile £380 - -
90th Percentile £392 - -
England median daily rate £475 £438 £471
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.01% -5.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 569 246 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.29% 80.13% 80.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 167 116
10th Percentile £313 £220 £264
25th Percentile £395 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £541 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 16 53
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.45
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £68.47 £17.15 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +299.24% -14.25% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £49.09 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -39 3 £356 -22.55% 1
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility