Defect Management Contracts in the South East

Defect Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 183 214
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 -38
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 16 34 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.65% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 29
10th Percentile £466 £392 £331
25th Percentile £472 £450 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +52.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £497 £721 £550
90th Percentile £499 - £600
England median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £51.88
% change year-on-year - - +116.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,729 5,219 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.98% 89.43% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,621 4,692
10th Percentile £238 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 221 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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
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 25 April 2024. 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 -9 9 £475 -34.12% 2
Buckinghamshire +31 8 £475 +5.56%
Surrey - 4 £500 - 1
Hampshire -1 3 - -
Berkshire -31 1 - - 2
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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
1 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
1 1 (6.25%) Xcode
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Military
4 2 (12.50%) German Language
4 2 (12.50%) Spanish Language
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Coordinator
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 4 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 3 (18.75%) OAT Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Software Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) ADO
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Digital Media
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Process Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
2 5 (31.25%) Test Management
3 4 (25.00%) B2B
3 4 (25.00%) B2C
3 4 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (18.75%) High Availability
4 3 (18.75%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Service Management
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle