Defect Management Jobs in the North of England

Defect Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 391 355
Rank change year-on-year +27 -36 -25
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 29 47 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 37
10th Percentile £51,057 £26,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,885 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,129 £57,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% -3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,483 16,940 16,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.70% 96.88% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,118 8,087 10,794
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the North of England

Defect Management
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +82 21 £70,000 +40.00%
North West +3 5 £56,067 -5.81% 1
North East -12 3 £48,232 +75.39%
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Composer
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (13.79%) dbt
1 4 (13.79%) GCP
1 4 (13.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (13.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JMeter
1 8 (27.59%) LoadRunner
2 7 (24.14%) Selenium
3 5 (17.24%) HP UFT
3 5 (17.24%) MSTest
3 5 (17.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (13.79%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) Zephyr
6 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.45%) Bugzilla
7 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Test Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Lead
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Test Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Test Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Test Leader
7 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Testing Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Testing Project Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) IT Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Test Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Software QA Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Agile
2 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
3 10 (34.48%) Functional Testing
4 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Performance Testing
5 8 (27.59%) Software Testing
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) Test Scripting
6 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (20.69%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) Regression Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
8 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
8 5 (17.24%) ITIL
8 5 (17.24%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
1 10 (34.48%) ISTQB
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.24%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) HP