Defect Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 311 324 348
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -36
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 67 111 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.54% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 80 116
10th Percentile £296 £280 £331
25th Percentile £381 £398 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £501 £432
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +15.97% +13.68%
75th Percentile £551 £656 £488
90th Percentile £741 £721 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £507 £450
% change year-on-year -6.36% +12.72% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile £19.25 - £50.69
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £51.88
75th Percentile £21.75 - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
UK median hourly rate £20.50 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +7 19 £488 -32.39% 3
Scotland +50 11 £563 -4.26% 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
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Wales +21 1 £210 -37.78%
East Midlands +5 1 £500 +78.57%
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Simulink
2 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.49%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.49%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.45%) OCI
4 5 (7.46%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (5.97%) SaaS
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.49%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) PBX
1 2 (2.99%) Skype
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) Softswitch
2 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.49%) Big Data
4 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Postman
3 2 (2.99%) JMeter
3 2 (2.99%) Selenium
3 2 (2.99%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.49%) TestRail
4 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.49%) Xcode
4 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Marketing
5 6 (8.96%) Retail
6 4 (5.97%) Electronics
6 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Military
8 2 (2.99%) German Language
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.49%) Automotive
9 1 (1.49%) Aviation
9 1 (1.49%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Test Manager
2 13 (19.40%) Lead
3 11 (16.42%) Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Test Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Test Leader
6 5 (7.46%) Coordinator
6 5 (7.46%) Tester
7 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Team Leader
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Coordinator
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Support
7 4 (5.97%) UAT Manager
8 3 (4.48%) OAT Manager
8 3 (4.48%) SAP Manager
8 3 (4.48%) SAP Test Manager
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Wintel Engineer
10 1 (1.49%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) .NET
2 3 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.99%) XML
4 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.49%) ADO
4 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.49%) HTML
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) PySpark
4 1 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.99%) Equities
2 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.99%) PKI
3 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.49%) IVR
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
3 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.49%) PMI
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) CentOS
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Test Management
2 20 (29.85%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) Test Strategy
3 17 (25.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 15 (22.39%) Test Planning
5 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.90%) Test Scripting
6 13 (19.40%) Test Automation
7 11 (16.42%) DevOps
7 11 (16.42%) Software Testing
8 10 (14.93%) Integration Testing
8 10 (14.93%) Regression Testing
9 9 (13.43%) Functional Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Waterfall
11 7 (10.45%) Non-Functional Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Project Management
12 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) SQL
2 3 (4.48%) C#
2 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.48%) Python
2 3 (4.48%) Ruby
3 2 (2.99%) C
3 2 (2.99%) C++
3 2 (2.99%) Java
3 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) ISTQB
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) ISEB
5 4 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.99%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (2.99%) MCSE
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.99%) WSUS
3 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Oracle
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) Ribbon
6 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.49%) Cognos
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Genesys
6 1 (1.49%) HP
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow