Defect Management Contracts in England

Defect Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Defect Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Management over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 470 492
Rank change year-on-year +51 +22 -49
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 126 169 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.40% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 110 197
10th Percentile £303 £280 £332
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £538
90th Percentile £641 £721 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.00
Median hourly rate - - £16.63
75th Percentile - - £26.59
90th Percentile - - £43.19
UK median hourly rate - - £16.63
% change year-on-year - - -52.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Defect Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,905 42,373 64,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.51% 89.84% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,680 29,662 46,011
10th Percentile £304 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 1,534 1,706
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £37.42 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +45.72% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.59 £50.74
90th Percentile £73.35 £75.80 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +96 57 £500 -6.54% 6
South East -5 19 £500 -30.65% 3
Midlands +4 16 £488 +4.56% 4
North of England +4 13 £388 -26.19% 3
West Midlands +14 12 £525 +16.99% 2
South West -2 8 £533 +25.29% 3
North West +1 7 £275 -45.00% 2
Yorkshire +6 6 £458 -16.82% 1
East of England +5 6 £313 -46.81%
East Midlands +6 4 £400 +42.86% 2
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.59%) Apache
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.79%) Simulink
4 1 (0.79%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.59%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.81%) Azure
2 11 (8.73%) Tricentis Tosca
3 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (4.76%) OCI
6 4 (3.17%) SaaS
7 3 (2.38%) AWS
7 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.79%) Boomi
9 1 (0.79%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.79%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
1 3 (2.38%) Skype
2 2 (1.59%) PBX
3 1 (0.79%) Softswitch
3 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.17%) DB2
3 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 2 (1.59%) Big Data
4 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.79%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (18.25%) JIRA
2 20 (15.87%) LoadRunner
3 11 (8.73%) NeoLoad
4 9 (7.14%) JMeter
5 8 (6.35%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.35%) Selenium
6 7 (5.56%) Git
7 4 (3.17%) Postman
7 4 (3.17%) SpecFlow
7 4 (3.17%) TestRail
8 2 (1.59%) FitNesse
8 2 (1.59%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.79%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.79%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.79%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 47 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.57%) Finance
3 21 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.70%) Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Marketing
5 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Retail
6 6 (4.76%) Legal
7 5 (3.97%) Law
7 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.17%) Electronics
8 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Military
9 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) Back Office
10 2 (1.59%) Front Office
10 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (26.98%) Lead
2 28 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 25 (19.84%) Analyst
4 23 (18.25%) Test Leader
5 21 (16.67%) Test Analyst
6 14 (11.11%) Performance Test Leader
7 13 (10.32%) Tester
8 6 (4.76%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (4.76%) Coordinator
8 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Senior
9 5 (3.97%) Consultant
9 5 (3.97%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Manual Test Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) SAP Manager
9 5 (3.97%) SAP Test Manager
9 5 (3.97%) Service Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) QA Tester
10 4 (3.17%) Team Leader
10 4 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) .NET
1 7 (5.56%) Middleware
2 4 (3.17%) ADO
3 3 (2.38%) BAPI
3 3 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (1.59%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.59%) JSON
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.59%) Playwright
4 2 (1.59%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) RESTful
4 2 (1.59%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.79%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.79%) HTML
5 1 (0.79%) PySpark
5 1 (0.79%) pytest
5 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.38%) PKI
2 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.79%) DataPower
4 1 (0.79%) IVR
4 1 (0.79%) Life Science
4 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.79%) PMI
4 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.94%) Windows
2 8 (6.35%) Linux
3 4 (3.17%) Unix
3 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.38%) CentOS
4 3 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.59%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.30%) Test Automation
2 45 (35.71%) Test Strategy
3 32 (25.40%) Agile
3 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (25.40%) Test Management
3 32 (25.40%) User Acceptance Testing
4 28 (22.22%) Functional Testing
5 25 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (18.25%) Performance Testing
6 23 (18.25%) Test Scripting
7 21 (16.67%) Waterfall
8 20 (15.87%) Project Management
9 18 (14.29%) Test Planning
10 16 (12.70%) Migration
10 16 (12.70%) Software Testing
11 15 (11.90%) Scenario Testing
12 13 (10.32%) System Integration Testing
13 12 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (9.52%) Non-Functional Testing
13 12 (9.52%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.29%) SQL
2 7 (5.56%) Python
3 6 (4.76%) Java
4 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.38%) ABAP
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) Ruby
6 2 (1.59%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.59%) VBA
7 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
1 16 (12.70%) ISTQB
2 14 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (4.76%) ISEB
6 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.38%) MCSE
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (26.19%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) SLA
3 2 (1.59%) Basel III
3 2 (1.59%) COREP
3 2 (1.59%) FINREP
3 2 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.38%) WSUS
3 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Oracle
2 14 (11.11%) SAP
3 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.73%) CA Agile Central
4 11 (8.73%) OpenAI
5 10 (7.94%) iManage
5 10 (7.94%) Intapp
6 4 (3.17%) Cisco
6 4 (3.17%) VMware
7 3 (2.38%) HP
7 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.59%) Databricks
8 2 (1.59%) Ribbon
8 2 (1.59%) Workday
9 1 (0.79%) Citrix
9 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.79%) ScienceLogic