Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Defect Management
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.37% - 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £248
25th Percentile - - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £264
75th Percentile - - £280
90th Percentile - - £285
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £375 £264
% change year-on-year -4.00% +42.18% +11.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 121 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.37% 82.31% 81.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 66 101
10th Percentile £184 £294 £306
25th Percentile £213 £409 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £714 £600 £738
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £450
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 7
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.79 £9.08
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £10.76
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +58.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £17.87 £54.56 £20.39
90th Percentile - £92.03 £23.82
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.50% +18.84%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Nottingham - 3 £395 -
Defect Management
East Midlands

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Local Government
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP