Defect Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 781 604 890
Rank change year-on-year -177 +286 -175
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 115 408 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.41% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 86 187 190
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,675
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.01% -9.92%
75th Percentile £69,063 £61,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,000 £74,686
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +20.48% -2.35%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -104 106 £55,000 +10.00% 24
UK excluding London -165 87 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Work from Home +2 57 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North of England +25 29 £57,965 +15.93% 3
London +70 27 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire +87 21 £70,000 +40.00% 1
South East -59 18 £56,000 +12.00% 3
Midlands +11 14 £49,329 -12.30% 3
South West -6 11 £55,000 +13.99% 1
West Midlands +32 9 £40,000 -28.89% 3
East of England -28 7 £40,000 - 3
Wales - 6 £70,000 -
North West -2 5 £56,067 -5.81% 2
East Midlands -17 5 £49,329 -
North East -8 3 £48,232 +75.39%
Scotland -97 2 - - 3

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 2 (1.74%) CMS
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.87%) Drupal
2 1 (0.87%) nginx
2 1 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.87%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.13%) Azure
2 17 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.30%) SaaS
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (3.48%) dbt
4 4 (3.48%) GCP
4 4 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.74%) AWS
6 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.74%) GitHub
6 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.74%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.35%) Tableau
4 4 (3.48%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (35.65%) JIRA
2 28 (24.35%) Selenium
3 17 (14.78%) JMeter
4 12 (10.43%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.70%) LoadRunner
5 10 (8.70%) Zephyr
6 9 (7.83%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (6.96%) SoapUI
7 8 (6.96%) TeamCity
7 8 (6.96%) Visual Studio
8 7 (6.09%) Postman
9 5 (4.35%) Git
9 5 (4.35%) HP UFT
9 5 (4.35%) MSTest
9 5 (4.35%) TestRail
10 3 (2.61%) Appium
10 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
10 3 (2.61%) JUnit
10 3 (2.61%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.61%) TestNG
General
1 48 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 14 (12.17%) Law
4 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.22%) Games
8 6 (5.22%) Retail
9 5 (4.35%) Legal
10 4 (3.48%) Local Government
10 4 (3.48%) Marketing
10 4 (3.48%) Police
11 2 (1.74%) Aviation
11 2 (1.74%) Electronics
11 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (23.48%) Analyst
2 24 (20.87%) Senior
3 21 (18.26%) Test Engineer
4 20 (17.39%) Lead
5 17 (14.78%) Test Analyst
6 13 (11.30%) Test Manager
7 12 (10.43%) QA Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Test Leader
9 8 (6.96%) QA Leader
9 8 (6.96%) Quality Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Tester
11 6 (5.22%) QA Analyst
11 6 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (5.22%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Automation Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) QA Automation Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) SaaS Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Automation Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) Gherkin
2 9 (7.83%) Web Services
3 7 (6.09%) .NET
4 5 (4.35%) HTML
5 4 (3.48%) RESTful
5 4 (3.48%) XML
6 3 (2.61%) ADO
6 3 (2.61%) JSON
6 3 (2.61%) REST
6 3 (2.61%) SOAP
6 3 (2.61%) WireMock
7 2 (1.74%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.74%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.74%) Celery
7 2 (1.74%) Kafka
7 2 (1.74%) XSD
7 2 (1.74%) XSLT
8 1 (0.87%) CSS
8 1 (0.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (7.83%) Low-Code
2 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.74%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.87%) PMI
5 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (62.61%) Test Automation
2 67 (58.26%) Agile
3 47 (40.87%) Software Testing
4 43 (37.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 39 (33.91%) Test Scripting
6 33 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (26.09%) Test Strategy
8 28 (24.35%) Scrum
9 27 (23.48%) Regression Testing
9 27 (23.48%) Test Management
10 26 (22.61%) DevOps
10 26 (22.61%) Functional Testing
11 24 (20.87%) CI/CD
12 23 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 22 (19.13%) Performance Testing
14 19 (16.52%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (13.91%) Non-Functional Testing
15 16 (13.91%) Project Delivery
15 16 (13.91%) System Integration Testing
16 15 (13.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.35%) SQL
2 14 (12.17%) Python
3 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.96%) C#
5 6 (5.22%) Java
5 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.74%) XPath
7 1 (0.87%) C++
7 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (27.83%) ISTQB
2 28 (24.35%) Degree
3 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.09%) ISEB
6 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.57%) QA
2 12 (10.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Firmware
2 3 (2.61%) Docker
3 2 (1.74%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Ansible
1 2 (1.74%) Consul
1 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.74%) SysTrack
2 1 (0.87%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 20 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.09%) MuleSoft
2 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.22%) Google
3 6 (5.22%) OutSystems
4 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.48%) iManage
4 4 (3.48%) Intapp
4 4 (3.48%) InterSystems
4 4 (3.48%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 2 (1.74%) Aderant
5 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.87%) Denodo
6 1 (0.87%) HP
6 1 (0.87%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.87%) Talend