Defect Management Contracts in the North of England

Defect Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 170 179
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +36
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 12 15 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.31% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.37% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 30
10th Percentile £351 £306 £470
25th Percentile £375 £413 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -23.91% +36.09%
75th Percentile £484 £474 £616
90th Percentile £489 £491 £700
England median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North West +22 10 £450 +55.84% 14
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 11
North East - 1 £460 - 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) FlexRay
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Designer
1 3 (25.00%) Service Designer
1 3 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Test Management
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (25.00%) Service Design
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco