Defect Manager Contracts

Defect Manager
UK

The median Defect Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 694 847
Rank change year-on-year +128 +153 -181
Contract jobs requiring a Defect Manager 13 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.010% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.011% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile - £328 £418
25th Percentile £363 £350 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £486
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -15.12% +17.82%
75th Percentile £588 £491 £534
90th Percentile - £519 £574
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £413 £549
% change year-on-year -9.09% -24.79% +21.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Defect Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Defect Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Manager.

Daily rate trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Manager in the UK

Defect Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +123 13 £550 +33.33%
UK excluding London +74 9 £375 -9.09%
Work from Home +125 6 £475 -
East of England +17 5 £375 -
London - 4 £563 -
South East - 4 £575 -

Defect Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Defect Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Defect Manager in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) JIRA
3 7 (53.85%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (46.15%) Defect Management
4 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) Confluence
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
6 3 (23.08%) Marketing
6 3 (23.08%) SAP
6 3 (23.08%) Release Management
6 3 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (23.08%) Electronics
6 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
6 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 3 (23.08%) V-Model
6 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (7.69%) Reinsurance
7 1 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Test Management

Defect Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Electronics
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Defect Management
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
3 3 (23.08%) Release Management
3 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) V-Model
4 1 (7.69%) ERP
4 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Test Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow