Defect Management Contracts in Wiltshire

Defect Management
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 85 88
Rank change year-on-year +31 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.67% 0.42% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.51% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £483 £368 £414
25th Percentile £513 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £641 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +46.57% -2.99%
75th Percentile £631 £781 £466
90th Percentile £658 £793 £471
South West median daily rate £456 £533 £438
% change year-on-year -14.32% +21.71% +6.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Wiltshire

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Wiltshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Wiltshire

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Swindon +1 2 £525 +70.73% 1
Corsham +29 1 £650 -13.33%
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) NsoIT
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow