Defect Tracking Contracts

Defect Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 670 774
Rank change year-on-year +153 +104 -129
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 61 46 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.078% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 41
10th Percentile £390 £335 £328
25th Percentile £425 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -1.02%
75th Percentile £517 £475 £488
90th Percentile £623 £498 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £420 £409
% change year-on-year +13.10% +2.69% +12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £54.45 - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £16.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £31.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Defect Tracking 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
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 Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +131 52 £471 +4.72% 12
UK excluding London +73 34 £475 +13.10% 8
Work from Home +128 27 £475 +5.56% 3
London +120 19 £468 -5.32% 3
South East +29 12 £390 -7.14%
Scotland +44 8 £475 +10.14%
North of England +33 8 £517 +13.94% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
Midlands +34 5 £450 -10.00% 2
West Midlands +23 5 £450 -10.00% 2
North West +26 1 - -
East of England +9 1 £440 +35.38% 3

Defect Tracking
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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.28%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.20%) Firebase
2 4 (6.56%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (6.56%) BrowserStack
2 4 (6.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) OCI
4 1 (1.64%) AWS
4 1 (1.64%) Boomi
4 1 (1.64%) GCP
4 1 (1.64%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
1 4 (6.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) Appium
2 8 (13.11%) Cypress.io
2 8 (13.11%) JMeter
2 8 (13.11%) Postman
3 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.20%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) GitLab
5 4 (6.56%) Selenium
5 4 (6.56%) Subversion
6 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.28%) ClearCase
7 2 (3.28%) ClearQuest
7 2 (3.28%) UI Automator
7 2 (3.28%) XCUITest
8 1 (1.64%) Bugzilla
8 1 (1.64%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.64%) JUnit
8 1 (1.64%) TestNG
8 1 (1.64%) TestRail
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.56%) Electronics
5 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Test Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Test Manager
4 6 (9.84%) Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Tester
5 5 (8.20%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) ABAP Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) QA Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) QA Tester
6 4 (6.56%) UAT Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Business Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Web Services
2 5 (8.20%) Middleware
2 5 (8.20%) WebdriverIO
3 4 (6.56%) BAPI
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (4.92%) CSS
4 3 (4.92%) Gherkin
4 3 (4.92%) HTML
5 2 (3.28%) JSON
5 2 (3.28%) SAP Basis
5 2 (3.28%) XML
6 1 (1.64%) Flash
6 1 (1.64%) HTML5
6 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Device Driver
2 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.56%) IoT
2 4 (6.56%) Life Science
2 4 (6.56%) PCIe
2 4 (6.56%) Verilog
2 4 (6.56%) VHDL
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (6.56%) VxWorks
3 2 (3.28%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (49.18%) Agile
2 26 (42.62%) Test Automation
3 21 (34.43%) Test Strategy
4 18 (29.51%) Test Planning
5 16 (26.23%) Computer Science
6 14 (22.95%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.95%) Software Testing
7 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
7 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
7 13 (21.31%) Test Management
8 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (18.03%) Defect Management
8 11 (18.03%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (18.03%) Scrum
8 11 (18.03%) Test Scripting
9 10 (16.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (14.75%) Code Quality
11 8 (13.11%) Validation
12 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.11%) C
2 8 (13.11%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) ABAP
4 4 (6.56%) Assembly Language
4 4 (6.56%) C++
4 4 (6.56%) Embedded C
4 4 (6.56%) Java
4 4 (6.56%) MATLAB
4 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.56%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.28%) Swift
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Master's Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) ISTQB
3 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) PhD
5 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) ISEB
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (31.15%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) JTAG
2 4 (6.56%) MISRA
2 4 (6.56%) MISRA C
3 3 (4.92%) HL7
4 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Firmware
2 4 (6.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.64%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) SAP
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.56%) Intel
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) HP
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce