Defect Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 335 355
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -36
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 67 116 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.49% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.54% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 113
10th Percentile £304 £280 £331
25th Percentile £381 £399 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £488
90th Percentile £738 £721 £574
UK median daily rate £465 £525 £434
% change year-on-year -11.43% +20.97% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile £19.25 - £50.69
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £51.88
75th Percentile £21.75 - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
UK median hourly rate £20.50 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +106.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +6 18 £500 -25.93% 3
North of England +6 12 £450 -21.74% 1
Scotland +48 11 £563 -4.26% 4
Midlands +20 11 £525 +73.55% 1
West Midlands +29 10 £525 +26.51% 1
East of England +19 7 £375 -42.31% 3
Yorkshire +15 7 £458 -16.82%
North West +23 5 £289 -42.25% 1
South West +16 5 £533 +25.29% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Wales +13 1 £210 -43.05% 1
East Midlands +9 1 £500 +85.19%
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Simulink
2 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.49%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.49%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.45%) OCI
4 5 (7.46%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (5.97%) SaaS
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.49%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) PBX
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) Softswitch
2 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.49%) Big Data
4 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Postman
2 3 (4.48%) Selenium
3 2 (2.99%) JMeter
3 2 (2.99%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.49%) Appium
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.49%) TestRail
4 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.49%) Xcode
4 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Marketing
5 6 (8.96%) Electronics
5 6 (8.96%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.96%) Retail
5 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Military
8 2 (2.99%) German Language
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.49%) Automotive
9 1 (1.49%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.49%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Test Manager
2 12 (17.91%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Lead
3 8 (11.94%) Test Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Coordinator
4 5 (7.46%) Test Leader
4 5 (7.46%) Tester
5 4 (5.97%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Team Leader
5 4 (5.97%) Technical Coordinator
5 4 (5.97%) Technical Support
6 3 (4.48%) OAT Manager
6 3 (4.48%) SAP Manager
6 3 (4.48%) SAP Test Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) UAT Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Defect Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) .NET
2 3 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.99%) XML
4 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.49%) ADO
4 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.49%) HTML
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) PySpark
4 1 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.99%) Equities
2 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.49%) IVR
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Test Management
2 20 (29.85%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 16 (23.88%) Test Strategy
5 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
5 15 (22.39%) Test Planning
6 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
8 12 (17.91%) DevOps
9 10 (14.93%) Integration Testing
9 10 (14.93%) Regression Testing
9 10 (14.93%) Software Testing
10 9 (13.43%) Functional Testing
11 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (11.94%) Project Management
12 7 (10.45%) Non-Functional Testing
12 7 (10.45%) Scenario Testing
12 7 (10.45%) Waterfall
13 6 (8.96%) Decision-Making
13 6 (8.96%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.96%) SQL
2 4 (5.97%) C#
3 3 (4.48%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Ruby
4 2 (2.99%) C
4 2 (2.99%) C++
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) ISTQB
2 6 (8.96%) Degree
3 4 (5.97%) ISEB
3 4 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.49%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Oracle
2 7 (10.45%) SAP
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco
5 2 (2.99%) HP
5 2 (2.99%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.49%) Cognos
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Genesys
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) ScienceLogic