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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.35% - 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £469 £438 £641
% change year-on-year +7.14% -31.77% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
South West median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Process & 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 199 112 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.82% 91.06% 77.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 89
10th Percentile £263 £250 £160
25th Percentile £357 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £588
90th Percentile £630 £727 £615
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 32
10th Percentile £37.25 £14.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -43.05% -18.75%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £41.25
90th Percentile - £20.01 £54.91
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend 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 23 March 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
Bath - 1 £550 - 1
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation