Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Telford

Defect Management
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 4.19% - 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% - 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.89%
75th Percentile £532 - £433
90th Percentile £538 - £443
Shropshire median daily rate £515 - £410
% change year-on-year - - -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 72 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 95.81% 86.75% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 66 21
10th Percentile £350 £216 £405
25th Percentile £429 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £427 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% -14.60% -5.66%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £573
90th Percentile £550 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £513 £420 £480
% change year-on-year +22.10% -12.50% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Telford

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) SAS
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Database
1 5 (62.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (62.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Release Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Test Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) pytest
2 2 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Visual Analytics
3 6 (75.00%) Validation
4 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
4 5 (62.50%) Data Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (37.50%) Data Management
6 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
6 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft