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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 178 181
Rank change year-on-year +56 +3 +45
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 24 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 17
10th Percentile £300 £458 £374
25th Percentile £325 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £721
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -32.39% +61.95%
75th Percentile £469 £500 -
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £461 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -2.89% -7.32% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
England median hourly rate - £20.50 -

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 2,666 4,608 4,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.21% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,676 3,448
10th Percentile £250 £255 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.25% +0.30%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 443 217
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.26 £22.16
Median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.69 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +42 15 £375 -20.00% 10
Berkshire +42 11 £400 - 10
Hampshire +25 4 £400 - 9
West Sussex +18 4 £379 -
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £350 -25.33%
Surrey +9 1 - -
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 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) 5G
2 2 (8.33%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (8.33%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (8.33%) SMS
2 2 (8.33%) SS7
2 2 (8.33%) VoLTE
2 2 (8.33%) VoWiFi
2 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 3 (12.50%) Toad
3 2 (8.33%) QARun
3 2 (8.33%) WinRunner
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) JMeter
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) TestRail
General
1 8 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 11 (45.83%) Test Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Test Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Network Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) OSS Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) QA Leader
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) XML
2 4 (16.67%) RFC 2544
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) Validation
4 7 (29.17%) Software Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Test Strategy
4 7 (29.17%) Waterfall
5 5 (20.83%) Manual Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Service Management
5 5 (20.83%) Test Management
6 4 (16.67%) Case Management
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.50%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 4 (16.67%) ISEB
3 4 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.33%) PMP
5 1 (4.17%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) webMethods
3 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.33%) Cramer
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.33%) Remedy
3 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media