Defect Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 326 337
Rank change year-on-year +50 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 58 68 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 87
10th Percentile £337 £305 £280
25th Percentile £386 £367 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -12.04% +28.57%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £650
90th Percentile £575 £738 £721
UK median daily rate £463 £465 £519
% change year-on-year -0.54% -10.36% +22.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
South East +41 23 £400 -20.00% 12
North of England +11 12 £455 +1.11% 10
Midlands +18 11 £491 -6.43% 6
North West +15 10 £450 +55.84% 6
West Midlands +13 10 £491 -6.43% 4
South West +32 7 £456 -14.32% 10
Scotland +3 3 £425 -24.44% 1
East of England +31 1 £413 +10.00% 1
East Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +2 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £460 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 (6.90%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
1 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.72%) GitHub
2 1 (1.72%) OCI
2 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.72%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) 5G
2 2 (3.45%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.45%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (3.45%) SMS
2 2 (3.45%) SS7
2 2 (3.45%) VoLTE
2 2 (3.45%) VoWiFi
2 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.72%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.72%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) IDMS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (55.17%) JIRA
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Selenium
3 5 (8.62%) SoapUI
4 4 (6.90%) Toad
5 3 (5.17%) TestRail
6 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.45%) QARun
6 2 (3.45%) WinRunner
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.72%) CA Gen
7 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.72%) JMeter
7 1 (1.72%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.72%) Postman
7 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Finance
4 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
5 6 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Automotive
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Electronics
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Local Government
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Analyst
2 18 (31.03%) Test Analyst
3 11 (18.97%) Test Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Tester
5 7 (12.07%) Lead
5 7 (12.07%) Senior
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) SAP Test Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Designer
7 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.17%) QA Leader
7 3 (5.17%) Service Designer
7 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Network Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) XML
2 5 (8.62%) Middleware
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (8.62%) SOAP
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) RFC 2544
4 1 (1.72%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) SCADA
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) CMDB
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) PMI
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (46.55%) Agile
2 24 (41.38%) Test Automation
3 22 (37.93%) Test Management
4 20 (34.48%) Test Strategy
5 18 (31.03%) Test Scripting
6 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.41%) Software Testing
7 13 (22.41%) Validation
8 12 (20.69%) Change Management
8 12 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (20.69%) Waterfall
9 11 (18.97%) Manual Testing
9 11 (18.97%) System Integration Testing
10 10 (17.24%) Scrum
11 9 (15.52%) Scenario Testing
12 8 (13.79%) Integration Testing
12 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (13.79%) User Stories
13 7 (12.07%) DevOps
13 7 (12.07%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) SQL
2 4 (6.90%) Java
3 3 (5.17%) C#
3 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) VB
5 1 (1.72%) C++
5 1 (1.72%) COBOL
5 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.69%) ISTQB
3 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) ISEB
4 6 (10.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (6.90%) Degree
6 3 (5.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) PMP
8 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.45%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Oracle
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) SAP
4 7 (12.07%) HP
5 5 (8.62%) MuleSoft
6 4 (6.90%) webMethods
7 3 (5.17%) Cisco
7 3 (5.17%) Remedy
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.45%) Cramer
8 2 (3.45%) Databricks
8 2 (3.45%) Infoblox
8 2 (3.45%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.72%) BMC
9 1 (1.72%) Micro Focus