Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Defect Management
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 42 76
Rank change year-on-year -23 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.00% 1.65% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.89% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £415 £311 £558
25th Percentile £425 £313 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £340 £750
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% -54.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £725 £399 £788
90th Percentile - £545 £795
South West median daily rate £469 £400 £641
% change year-on-year +17.19% -37.62% +97.31%

All Process & 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 572 370 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 81.83% 87.47% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 243 521
10th Percentile £400 £313 £313
25th Percentile £500 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £702 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 24
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £13.36 £36.40 £14.54
Median hourly rate £21.64 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +263.64% -74.81%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £47.71
90th Percentile £25.15 - £70.55
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.77% +20.93% -12.60%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

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 6 February 2026. 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
Corsham -15 6 £594 +8.45% 1
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Skype
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) CentOS
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) NsoIT
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 3 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) MCSE
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat