Defect Management Contracts in the South West

Defect Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 142 146 152
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -30
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 8 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.42% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £377 £348 £294
25th Percentile £457 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £694 £574 £465
90th Percentile £785 £873 £483
England median daily rate £475 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -8.43% +15.28% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile - - £50.69
Median hourly rate - - £51.88
75th Percentile - - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
England median hourly rate £20.50 - £33.38
% change year-on-year - - -4.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,113 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.71% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,274 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 317 207
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.76% +10.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.29
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the South West

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the South West

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the South West

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the South West

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +9 7 £554 +23.06% 2
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cognos Support
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) NsoIT
3 1 (12.50%) Order to Cash
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Record to Report
3 1 (12.50%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) MCSE
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (12.50%) Cognos
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle