Defect Management Contracts in England

Defect Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 472 490
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 -53
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 107 160 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 105 203
10th Percentile £300 £280 £332
25th Percentile £372 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £546 £619 £520
90th Percentile £671 £721 £585
UK median daily rate £475 £507 £450
% change year-on-year -6.36% +12.72% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.64
25th Percentile £19.25 - £16.59
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £33.38
75th Percentile £21.75 - £50.69
90th Percentile - - £52.83
UK median hourly rate £20.50 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +91 47 £506 -7.95% 5
South East +7 19 £488 -32.39% 3
North of England +2 11 £450 -21.74% 3
Midlands +20 10 £525 +26.51% 2
West Midlands +19 9 £525 +14.75% 2
South West +8 8 £533 +21.71% 3
North West +15 6 £275 -45.00%
East of England +15 5 £350 -34.88%
Yorkshire +10 5 £458 -16.82% 2
East Midlands +5 1 £500 +78.57%
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Simulink
3 1 (0.93%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.87%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.93%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.93%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.50%) Azure
2 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.61%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (4.67%) OCI
4 5 (4.67%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (3.74%) SaaS
6 2 (1.87%) AWS
6 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.93%) Boomi
7 1 (0.93%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.93%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) PBX
1 2 (1.87%) Skype
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) Softswitch
2 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) DB2
4 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.93%) Metadata
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (20.56%) JIRA
2 12 (11.21%) LoadRunner
3 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.54%) JMeter
4 6 (5.61%) Selenium
5 5 (4.67%) NeoLoad
6 4 (3.74%) Git
6 4 (3.74%) Postman
6 4 (3.74%) SpecFlow
6 4 (3.74%) TestRail
7 2 (1.87%) FitNesse
7 2 (1.87%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.87%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.93%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Gatling
8 1 (0.93%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Xcode
8 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.17%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.28%) Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Marketing
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Retail
7 5 (4.67%) Electronics
7 5 (4.67%) Law
7 5 (4.67%) Legal
7 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.74%) Military
8 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) German Language
10 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.87%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Test Manager
2 23 (21.50%) Lead
3 21 (19.63%) Analyst
4 18 (16.82%) Test Analyst
5 12 (11.21%) Test Leader
5 12 (11.21%) Tester
6 6 (5.61%) Coordinator
6 6 (5.61%) Performance Test Leader
6 6 (5.61%) SAP Manager
6 6 (5.61%) SAP Test Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Manual Test Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Service Analyst
8 4 (3.74%) Defect Manager
8 4 (3.74%) OAT Manager
8 4 (3.74%) QA Tester
8 4 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.74%) Team Leader
8 4 (3.74%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) .NET
2 3 (2.80%) ADO
2 3 (2.80%) BAPI
2 3 (2.80%) Middleware
2 3 (2.80%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (1.87%) Playwright
3 2 (1.87%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.93%) HTML
4 1 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.93%) PySpark
4 1 (0.93%) RESTful
4 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.87%) Life Science
3 2 (1.87%) PKI
3 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.93%) EPoS
4 1 (0.93%) IVR
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.93%) PMI
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) Android
4 2 (1.87%) CentOS
4 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.78%) Agile
2 31 (28.97%) Test Automation
3 27 (25.23%) Test Management
3 27 (25.23%) User Acceptance Testing
4 26 (24.30%) Test Strategy
5 25 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.43%) Functional Testing
7 20 (18.69%) Test Scripting
8 16 (14.95%) Performance Testing
8 16 (14.95%) Software Testing
8 16 (14.95%) Test Planning
8 16 (14.95%) Waterfall
9 14 (13.08%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (12.15%) Project Management
10 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (11.21%) DevOps
11 12 (11.21%) Migration
11 12 (11.21%) Regression Testing
11 12 (11.21%) System Integration Testing
12 11 (10.28%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.15%) SQL
2 6 (5.61%) Java
2 6 (5.61%) Python
3 3 (2.80%) ABAP
3 3 (2.80%) C#
3 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.80%) Ruby
4 2 (1.87%) C
4 2 (1.87%) C++
4 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.87%) VBA
5 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) ISTQB
2 14 (13.08%) Degree
3 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.74%) ISEB
7 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.87%) MCSE
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (25.23%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) SLA
3 2 (1.87%) Basel III
3 2 (1.87%) COREP
3 2 (1.87%) FINREP
3 2 (1.87%) GxP
3 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.87%) WSUS
3 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) SAP
2 12 (11.21%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.67%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.67%) iManage
4 5 (4.67%) Intapp
4 5 (4.67%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco
5 2 (1.87%) HP
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.87%) Ribbon
5 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Citrix
6 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.93%) Cognos
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Genesys
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) VMware