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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 519 507
Rank change year-on-year +83 -12 -29
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 138 182 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.35% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 121 259
10th Percentile £303 £280 £331
25th Percentile £377 £398 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £570 £625 £520
90th Percentile £738 £721 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.53% +11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile £19.25 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £49.50
75th Percentile £21.75 - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 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
England +47 110 £475 -9.52% 19
UK excluding London +9 67 £491 -6.43% 17
London +98 50 £506 -7.95% 5
Work from Home +101 44 £500 -9.09% 10
South East +6 18 £500 -28.57% 1
Scotland +54 11 £563 -4.26% 3
North of England -3 11 £450 -21.74% 1
Midlands +23 10 £525 +61.54% 2
West Midlands +24 9 £525 +26.51% 2
South West +13 8 £533 +21.71% 6
East of England +15 6 £375 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +13 6 £465 -15.45% 1
North West +15 5 £289 -42.25%
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Wales +22 1 £210 -37.78% 1
East Midlands +6 1 £500 +81.82%

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 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.72%) Simulink
3 1 (0.72%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.45%) Temenos Globus
4 1 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.72%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.72%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.72%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.72%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.46%) Azure
2 13 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.52%) OCI
4 6 (4.35%) SaaS
4 6 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (3.62%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (2.17%) AWS
6 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.72%) Boomi
7 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.72%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) PBX
1 2 (1.45%) Skype
2 1 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) Softswitch
2 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.07%) Oracle Reports
1 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.45%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.72%) Big Data
4 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.72%) Metadata
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (23.91%) JIRA
2 16 (11.59%) LoadRunner
3 11 (7.97%) JMeter
4 9 (6.52%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.35%) Postman
5 6 (4.35%) Selenium
6 5 (3.62%) Git
6 5 (3.62%) NeoLoad
6 5 (3.62%) TestRail
7 4 (2.90%) Gatling
7 4 (2.90%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.45%) FitNesse
9 2 (1.45%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.72%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.72%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.99%) Finance
3 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.14%) Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Marketing
7 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.07%) Retail
8 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.35%) Electronics
8 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.62%) Law
9 5 (3.62%) Legal
10 4 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.90%) Military
11 3 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.45%) German Language
12 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (26.09%) Test Manager
2 30 (21.74%) Lead
3 28 (20.29%) Analyst
4 23 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 19 (13.77%) Test Leader
6 13 (9.42%) Tester
7 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 7 (5.07%) Performance Test Leader
8 7 (5.07%) SAP Manager
8 7 (5.07%) SAP Test Manager
9 6 (4.35%) Coordinator
9 6 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (3.62%) Manual Test Analyst
10 5 (3.62%) Service Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Consultant
11 4 (2.90%) QA Tester
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.90%) Technical Support
11 4 (2.90%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.35%) .NET
1 6 (4.35%) ADO
2 3 (2.17%) BAPI
2 3 (2.17%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (1.45%) Middleware
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.45%) Playwright
3 2 (1.45%) REST
3 2 (1.45%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.45%) XML
4 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.72%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.72%) HTML
4 1 (0.72%) JSON
4 1 (0.72%) PySpark
4 1 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.80%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.45%) Equities
3 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.45%) Life Science
3 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.45%) PKI
3 2 (1.45%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.72%) EPoS
4 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.72%) IVR
4 1 (0.72%) NHS
4 1 (0.72%) PMI
4 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Windows
2 4 (2.90%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.45%) Android
3 2 (1.45%) CentOS
3 2 (1.45%) Unix
3 2 (1.45%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 46 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 39 (28.26%) Agile
3 38 (27.54%) Test Management
4 37 (26.81%) Test Strategy
5 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (19.57%) Functional Testing
6 27 (19.57%) Test Scripting
7 22 (15.94%) Test Planning
8 21 (15.22%) Regression Testing
8 21 (15.22%) Scenario Testing
9 20 (14.49%) DevOps
9 20 (14.49%) Performance Testing
9 20 (14.49%) Project Management
9 20 (14.49%) Software Testing
9 20 (14.49%) Waterfall
10 18 (13.04%) End-to-End Testing
10 18 (13.04%) Integration Testing
11 16 (11.59%) System Integration Testing
12 15 (10.87%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.42%) SQL
2 6 (4.35%) Java
2 6 (4.35%) Python
3 3 (2.17%) ABAP
3 3 (2.17%) C#
3 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.17%) Ruby
4 2 (1.45%) C
4 2 (1.45%) C++
4 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.45%) VBA
5 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 17 (12.32%) Degree
3 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
4 14 (10.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.80%) ISEB
5 8 (5.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.45%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (1.45%) MCSE
8 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.45%) PMP
9 1 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.91%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) PMO
2 4 (2.90%) SLA
3 3 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.45%) Basel III
4 2 (1.45%) COREP
4 2 (1.45%) FINREP
4 2 (1.45%) GxP
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (2.90%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.45%) WSUS
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (15.94%) Oracle
2 19 (13.77%) SAP
3 9 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.62%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (3.62%) iManage
4 5 (3.62%) Intapp
4 5 (3.62%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.17%) Blue Prism
6 3 (2.17%) HP
7 2 (1.45%) Cisco
7 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.45%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.72%) Ariba
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.72%) Citrix
8 1 (0.72%) Cognos
8 1 (0.72%) Dell
8 1 (0.72%) Genesys