Defect Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 124 148
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -16
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 9 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.90% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.98% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 9
10th Percentile - £368 £331
25th Percentile £463 £489 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £721 £400
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +80.25% -10.61%
75th Percentile £488 - £438
90th Percentile - - £489
South East median daily rate £500 £675 £438
% change year-on-year -25.93% +54.29% +8.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Buckinghamshire +32 8 £475 +5.56%
Berkshire -28 1 - - 1
Defect Management
South East

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Android Studio
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
1 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
1 1 (11.11%) Xcode
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Coordinator
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) ADO
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Process Improvement
1 5 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) B2B
2 4 (44.44%) B2C
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA