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 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 788 643 877
Rank change year-on-year -145 +234 -148
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 114 349 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 89 150 192
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £33,800
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £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 £66,250 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £72,625 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 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
England -83 105 £55,000 +10.00% 24
UK excluding London -135 89 £55,000 +10.00% 20
Work from Home +10 56 £55,000 +10.00% 10
North of England +41 29 £57,965 +15.93% 1
London +51 24 £60,000 +20.00% 7
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
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 (1.75%) CMS
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.88%) Drupal
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
2 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.79%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (11.40%) SaaS
3 4 (3.51%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (3.51%) dbt
3 4 (3.51%) GCP
3 4 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (3.51%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.75%) AWS
5 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.75%) GitHub
5 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.75%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.39%) Tableau
4 4 (3.51%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (35.96%) JIRA
2 29 (25.44%) Selenium
3 16 (14.04%) JMeter
4 14 (12.28%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.77%) LoadRunner
5 10 (8.77%) SoapUI
6 9 (7.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (7.89%) Zephyr
7 8 (7.02%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.02%) Visual Studio
8 7 (6.14%) Postman
8 7 (6.14%) TestRail
9 5 (4.39%) Appium
9 5 (4.39%) Git
9 5 (4.39%) HP UFT
9 5 (4.39%) JUnit
9 5 (4.39%) MSTest
9 5 (4.39%) TestNG
10 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
10 3 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 45 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Law
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Legal
7 6 (5.26%) Retail
8 5 (4.39%) Games
9 4 (3.51%) Local Government
9 4 (3.51%) Marketing
9 4 (3.51%) Police
10 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Electronics
10 2 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 26 (22.81%) Analyst
2 24 (21.05%) Senior
3 20 (17.54%) Test Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Lead
5 16 (14.04%) Test Analyst
5 16 (14.04%) Test Manager
6 11 (9.65%) QA Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Quality Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Test Leader
10 6 (5.26%) QA Leader
10 6 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Automation Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) QA Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) QA Automation Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) SaaS Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) Senior Automation Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) Senior QA Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.40%) Gherkin
2 9 (7.89%) Web Services
3 5 (4.39%) HTML
3 5 (4.39%) RESTful
4 4 (3.51%) XML
5 3 (2.63%) .NET
5 3 (2.63%) ADO
5 3 (2.63%) JSON
5 3 (2.63%) REST
5 3 (2.63%) SOAP
5 3 (2.63%) WireMock
6 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.75%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.75%) Celery
6 2 (1.75%) Kafka
6 2 (1.75%) XSD
6 2 (1.75%) XSLT
7 1 (0.88%) CSS
7 1 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (7.89%) Low-Code
2 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) PMI
6 1 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) Test Automation
2 68 (59.65%) Agile
3 46 (40.35%) Software Testing
4 45 (39.47%) User Acceptance Testing
5 35 (30.70%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (29.82%) Test Scripting
7 33 (28.95%) Scrum
8 29 (25.44%) Test Strategy
9 28 (24.56%) Test Management
10 27 (23.68%) Functional Testing
10 27 (23.68%) Regression Testing
11 24 (21.05%) Mentoring
12 23 (20.18%) Performance Testing
13 22 (19.30%) DevOps
14 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
15 19 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
16 18 (15.79%) Coaching
17 17 (14.91%) Non-Functional Testing
18 16 (14.04%) Project Delivery
18 16 (14.04%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.81%) SQL
2 12 (10.53%) Python
3 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.02%) C#
4 8 (7.02%) Java
5 6 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.63%) C++
7 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.75%) XPath
8 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) ISTQB
2 30 (26.32%) Degree
3 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.14%) ISEB
6 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (28.95%) QA
2 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Firmware
2 3 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Ansible
1 2 (1.75%) Consul
1 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.88%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) MuleSoft
2 7 (6.14%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) OutSystems
4 5 (4.39%) Oracle
5 4 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.51%) InterSystems
5 4 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.63%) iManage
6 3 (2.63%) Intapp
7 2 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Aderant
8 1 (0.88%) Denodo
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.88%) Talend