Defect Manager Contracts in England

Defect Manager
UK > England

The median Defect Manager daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 632 759
Rank change year-on-year +90 +127 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Defect Manager 9 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.011% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.011% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile £263 £333 £419
25th Percentile £488 £363 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £519 £505
90th Percentile £603 £530 £538
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Defect Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Defect Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Manager in England

Defect Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East - 4 £575 -
London +96 3 £600 +17.07% 1
North West - 2 £275 -
North of England - 2 £275 -
Defect Manager
UK

Defect Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Defect Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Defect Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) Defect Management
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) SDLC
2 4 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Release Management
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) V-Model
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (11.11%) QA
5 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) OCI
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance

Defect Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Defect Management
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) V-Model
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow