Defect Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Defect Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 101 136
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 -5
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 10 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.56% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.67% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £413 £396 £299
25th Percentile £434 £459 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £415
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +26.51% +2.47%
75th Percentile £558 £653 £449
90th Percentile £619 £999 £480
England median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,637 2,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 83.91% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,085 1,445
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.10 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Warwickshire +2 5 £463 -11.90% 2
Shropshire - 3 £455 - 2
Birmingham +10 2 £588 +38.24% 2
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) CA Gen
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (10.00%) Toad
General
1 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Strategy
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Test Management
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Test Assurance
4 5 (50.00%) User Stories
5 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (10.00%) BDD
8 1 (10.00%) Business Transformation
8 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (10.00%) DevOps
8 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (10.00%) Microservices
8 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) MuleSoft
3 3 (30.00%) SAP
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Micro Focus
5 1 (10.00%) webMethods