Bug Management Contracts

Bug Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Bug Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bug 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 524 - 699
Rank change year-on-year - - +133
Contract jobs citing Bug Management 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £600 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.59%
75th Percentile £700 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Bug 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

Bug Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bug Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bug Management in the UK

Bug Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bug Management.

Daily rate trend for Bug Management in the UK

Bug Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bug Management.

Hourly rate trend for Bug Management in the UK

Bug Management
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bug Management within the UK 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 West - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

Bug Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared