Defect Management Contracts in the North of England

Defect Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 178 227
Rank change year-on-year +1 +49 -63
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 12 38 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.65% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.72% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 17
10th Percentile £294 £465 £343
25th Percentile £397 £550 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +35.29% +7.94%
75th Percentile £480 £626 £500
90th Percentile £502 £700 £551
England median daily rate £450 £535 £438
% change year-on-year -15.89% +22.29% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +16 7 £458 -16.82%
North West +22 5 £289 -42.25% 1
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (8.33%) Commercetools
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) PBX
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Softswitch
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Manager
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Test Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Test Management
3 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) IFRS
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Ribbon
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce