Defect Management Contract Job Trends in North London

Defect Management
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in North London 3.85% - 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £300
London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 25 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 69.23% 96.15% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 20
10th Percentile £176 £320 £201
25th Percentile £263 £403 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £306
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +57.14% -35.53%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £445
90th Percentile £556 £654 £590
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.03
Median hourly rate - - £21.12
75th Percentile - - £22.20
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in North London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in North London

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

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

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in North London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Enfield - 1 £400 -
Defect Management
London

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Verint