Defect Management Contracts in the North of England

Defect Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 176 234
Rank change year-on-year +4 +58 -74
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 11 37 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.66% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.73% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 16
10th Percentile £258 £445 £341
25th Percentile £288 £475 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £423
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +36.09% +2.42%
75th Percentile £470 £650 £491
90th Percentile £481 £700 £554
England median daily rate £475 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -8.43% +15.28% +6.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West +9 6 £275 -45.00%
Yorkshire +11 5 £458 -16.82% 1
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
1 1 (9.09%) Commercetools
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) PBX
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Softswitch
2 1 (9.09%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
2 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Aviation
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Manager
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Defect Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Test Management
2 4 (36.36%) Test Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) API Testing
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
5 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Ribbon
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce