Defect Management Contracts

Defect Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 520 503
Rank change year-on-year +59 -17 -40
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 141 176 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 117 262
10th Percentile £300 £307 £331
25th Percentile £367 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £502 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +11.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £619 £524
90th Percentile £686 £721 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £501 £436
% change year-on-year -5.19% +14.97% +14.67%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 - £51.88
% change year-on-year - - +116.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +54 113 £468 -10.90% 27
UK excluding London +4 69 £475 -5.19% 24
London +85 51 £471 -13.27% 7
Work from Home +96 46 £450 -10.00% 9
South East +3 18 £488 -31.39% 6
North of England +3 13 £388 -29.55% 5
Midlands +12 12 £525 +16.67% 4
Scotland +46 11 £563 +2.27% 4
West Midlands +14 10 £525 +14.75% 3
North West +6 7 £275 -45.00%
South West +6 7 £518 +21.76% 4
Yorkshire +5 6 £458 -16.82% 4
East of England +5 5 £350 -50.00%
East Midlands +6 2 £500 +78.57% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Wales +19 1 £210 -37.78%

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Simulink
4 1 (0.71%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 7 (4.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.42%) SAP APO
3 2 (1.42%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.42%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.42%) Temenos Globus
4 1 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.71%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.71%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.71%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.71%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.73%) Azure
2 12 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (7.09%) OCI
4 7 (4.96%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (4.26%) SaaS
6 5 (3.55%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (2.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.42%) AWS
8 2 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.71%) Boomi
9 1 (0.71%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.71%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) PBX
1 2 (1.42%) Skype
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) Softswitch
2 1 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.84%) DB2
4 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.42%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.71%) Big Data
6 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (19.86%) JIRA
2 17 (12.06%) LoadRunner
3 12 (8.51%) JMeter
4 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.26%) Selenium
6 5 (3.55%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.84%) Git
7 4 (2.84%) Postman
7 4 (2.84%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.84%) TestRail
8 3 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.42%) FitNesse
9 2 (1.42%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.42%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.71%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.71%) Gatling
10 1 (0.71%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.71%) Xcode
10 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.79%) Finance
3 20 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.93%) Banking
5 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.67%) Retail
7 7 (4.96%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.96%) Marketing
8 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.26%) Legal
9 5 (3.55%) Electronics
9 5 (3.55%) Law
9 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.84%) Military
10 4 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.42%) German Language
11 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (28.37%) Test Manager
2 32 (22.70%) Lead
3 28 (19.86%) Analyst
4 22 (15.60%) Test Analyst
5 21 (14.89%) Test Leader
6 13 (9.22%) Tester
7 9 (6.38%) Performance Test Leader
8 7 (4.96%) SAP Manager
8 7 (4.96%) SAP Test Manager
9 6 (4.26%) Coordinator
9 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Defect Manager
10 5 (3.55%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Manual Test Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Service Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) UAT Manager
11 4 (2.84%) Consultant
11 4 (2.84%) OAT Manager
11 4 (2.84%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.26%) .NET
2 5 (3.55%) Middleware
3 4 (2.84%) ADO
4 3 (2.13%) BAPI
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.42%) Playwright
5 2 (1.42%) REST
5 2 (1.42%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.42%) XML
6 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.71%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.71%) HTML
6 1 (0.71%) JSON
6 1 (0.71%) PySpark
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.42%) Equities
4 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.42%) Life Science
4 2 (1.42%) PKI
4 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.71%) DataPower
5 1 (0.71%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) EPoS
5 1 (0.71%) IVR
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) PMI
5 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.51%) Windows
2 8 (5.67%) Linux
3 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.42%) Android
4 2 (1.42%) CentOS
4 2 (1.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
2 45 (31.91%) Test Automation
2 45 (31.91%) Test Strategy
3 39 (27.66%) Test Management
4 37 (26.24%) Agile
5 33 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (19.86%) Test Scripting
7 26 (18.44%) Functional Testing
8 24 (17.02%) Test Planning
9 21 (14.89%) Waterfall
10 20 (14.18%) Integration Testing
10 20 (14.18%) Performance Testing
10 20 (14.18%) Regression Testing
10 20 (14.18%) Scenario Testing
11 19 (13.48%) Software Testing
11 19 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (12.77%) Migration
12 18 (12.77%) Project Management
13 17 (12.06%) System Integration Testing
14 16 (11.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.35%) SQL
2 5 (3.55%) Java
2 5 (3.55%) Python
3 3 (2.13%) ABAP
3 3 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.13%) Ruby
4 2 (1.42%) C#
4 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.42%) VBA
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) C++
5 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (17.02%) ISTQB
2 18 (12.77%) Degree
3 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.38%) ISEB
6 8 (5.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.13%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.42%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (1.42%) MCSE
9 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.70%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) SLA
3 4 (2.84%) PMO
4 3 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.42%) Basel III
5 2 (1.42%) COREP
5 2 (1.42%) FINREP
5 2 (1.42%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.26%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.42%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.42%) WSUS
3 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (16.31%) Oracle
2 19 (13.48%) SAP
3 14 (9.93%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.55%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (3.55%) iManage
4 5 (3.55%) Intapp
4 5 (3.55%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.84%) VMware
6 3 (2.13%) Blue Prism
6 3 (2.13%) HP
7 2 (1.42%) Cisco
7 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.42%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.42%) Workday
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.71%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) Guidewire