Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Defect Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 82 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.68% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% - -
75th Percentile £553 £463 -
90th Percentile £558 £519 -
Berkshire median daily rate £364 £350 -
% change year-on-year +3.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 657 945 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.00% 91.39% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 537 619
10th Percentile £346 £325 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.45 £41.24
25th Percentile £20.38 £42.50 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% -2.42% -2.63%
75th Percentile £93.75 £69.69 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.00 £77.39 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £60.25 £61.45
% change year-on-year -32.89% -1.95% +29.36%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Reading over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Reading

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Defect Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Case Management
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (20.00%) Test Management
1 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (20.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) HP