Defect Management Contracts in Yorkshire

Defect Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 93 94
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +41
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 4 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.26% 0.73% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.87% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £439 £392 £460
25th Percentile £445 £404 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £429 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -22.05% +34.15%
75th Percentile £465 £466 £575
90th Percentile £471 £480 £590
England median daily rate £436 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -10.00% +6.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 1,263 1,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.58% 83.42% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 774 1,191
10th Percentile £263 £314 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 48 30
10th Percentile £16.65 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £12.45 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.78% -31.58% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £71.89 £38.25 £44.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.90
% change year-on-year -40.82% +1.43% +58.11%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Yorkshire

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Yorkshire

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in Yorkshire

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
West Yorkshire -3 4 £455 +6.12% 4
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia