Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Defect Management
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Defect Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South West median daily rate £450 £340 £400
% change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 142 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 91.05% 72.45% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 87 120
10th Percentile £186 £200 £199
25th Percentile £263 £372 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £628
90th Percentile £725 £680 £716
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 29
10th Percentile £15.24 £12.50 £34.48
25th Percentile - £14.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £66.23
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +12.17%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Somerset

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Yeovil - 1 £450 - 1
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft