Defect Management Contracts in the South East

Defect Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 181 185
Rank change year-on-year +52 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 23 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.31% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.36% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 20
10th Percentile £321 £466 £394
25th Percentile £361 £472 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -27.78% +58.82%
75th Percentile £469 £497 £721
90th Percentile £515 £499 -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +41 13 £400 -15.79% 9
Berkshire +35 9 £463 - 5
Hampshire +27 4 £400 - 5
West Sussex +16 4 £379 - 2
Buckinghamshire +14 4 £350 -26.32% 3
Surrey +12 1 - - 3
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) 5G
1 2 (8.70%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (8.70%) SMS
1 2 (8.70%) SS7
1 2 (8.70%) VoLTE
1 2 (8.70%) VoWiFi
1 2 (8.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) SoapUI
2 3 (13.04%) Toad
3 2 (8.70%) QARun
3 2 (8.70%) WinRunner
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) TestRail
General
1 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Test Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Test Manager
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Network Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) OSS Project Manager
6 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 2 (8.70%) QA Leader
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) XML
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) RFC 2544
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
1 10 (43.48%) Test Scripting
2 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
2 9 (39.13%) Validation
3 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
3 7 (30.43%) Test Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) Waterfall
4 5 (21.74%) Manual Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Test Management
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Service Management
6 3 (13.04%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) VB
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) ISTQB
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) ISEB
3 4 (17.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.70%) PMP
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) webMethods
3 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Cramer
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.70%) Remedy
3 2 (8.70%) Virgin Media