Defect Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 668 533 622
Rank change year-on-year -135 +89 -34
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 89 228 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 65 84 120
10th Percentile £36,450 £31,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,885 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +20.48% -2.35%
75th Percentile £61,750 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,041
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.01% -9.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +41 29 £57,965 +15.93% 1
Yorkshire +89 21 £70,000 +40.00%
South East -81 18 £56,000 +12.00% 2
Midlands -4 17 £49,329 -12.30% 2
West Midlands +21 12 £40,000 -28.89% 2
South West -19 10 £55,000 +13.99% 8
East of England -18 7 £40,000 - 3
Wales - 6 £70,000 - 1
North West +7 5 £56,067 -2.49% 1
East Midlands -19 5 £49,329 -
North East -9 3 £48,232 +75.39%
Scotland -84 2 - - 3
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.12%) CMS
1 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (1.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.11%) Azure
2 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (4.49%) dbt
3 4 (4.49%) GCP
3 4 (4.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (4.49%) SaaS
3 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.37%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.62%) Tableau
4 4 (4.49%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) JIRA
2 17 (19.10%) Selenium
3 14 (15.73%) JMeter
4 10 (11.24%) Cucumber
5 9 (10.11%) Zephyr
6 8 (8.99%) LoadRunner
6 8 (8.99%) TeamCity
7 7 (7.87%) Postman
8 6 (6.74%) SoapUI
8 6 (6.74%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.62%) HP UFT
9 5 (5.62%) MSTest
9 5 (5.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (3.37%) Appium
11 2 (2.25%) Git
12 1 (1.12%) Bugzilla
12 1 (1.12%) JUnit
12 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 35 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Law
4 9 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.11%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.62%) Games
7 4 (4.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Test Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) Analyst
3 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 15 (16.85%) Lead
5 14 (15.73%) Test Analyst
5 14 (15.73%) Test Manager
6 10 (11.24%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Developer
7 8 (8.99%) Quality Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) QA Leader
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Test Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Coordinator
10 3 (3.37%) Junior
10 3 (3.37%) Junior Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Junior Software Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Performance Test Leader
10 3 (3.37%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) Gherkin
2 4 (4.49%) HTML
2 4 (4.49%) Web Services
3 3 (3.37%) ADO
4 2 (2.25%) REST
5 1 (1.12%) .NET
5 1 (1.12%) Middleware
5 1 (1.12%) RESTful
5 1 (1.12%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Low-Code
2 7 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) PMI
6 1 (1.12%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (58.43%) Agile
1 52 (58.43%) Test Automation
2 35 (39.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 33 (37.08%) Software Testing
4 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.21%) Test Scripting
6 24 (26.97%) Test Strategy
7 23 (25.84%) Functional Testing
8 21 (23.60%) Test Management
9 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
9 20 (22.47%) Scrum
10 16 (17.98%) End-to-End Testing
10 16 (17.98%) System Integration Testing
11 15 (16.85%) Coaching
11 15 (16.85%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (16.85%) Integration Testing
11 15 (16.85%) Migration
12 14 (15.73%) Change Management
12 14 (15.73%) CI/CD
12 14 (15.73%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.10%) SQL
2 7 (7.87%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.62%) C#
3 5 (5.62%) Java
3 5 (5.62%) Python
4 4 (4.49%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (26.97%) ISTQB
2 23 (25.84%) Degree
3 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.74%) ISEB
6 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.47%) QA
2 7 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) MuleSoft
2 7 (7.87%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.74%) OutSystems
4 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.49%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) InterSystems
4 4 (4.49%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (3.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Denodo
6 1 (1.12%) HP
6 1 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.12%) Talend