Defect Tracking Contracts in England

Defect Tracking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 489 632 727
Rank change year-on-year +143 +95 -151
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 52 29 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.058% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.064% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 35
10th Percentile £380 £319 -
25th Percentile £423 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £517 £488 £481
90th Percentile £612 £505 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Defect Tracking in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Defect Tracking in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +121 19 £468 -5.32% 3
South East +30 12 £390 -7.14%
North of England +38 8 £517 +13.94% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
Midlands +32 5 £450 -10.00% 2
West Midlands +26 5 £450 -10.00% 2
North West +27 1 - -
East of England +17 1 £440 +35.38% 3
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Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (9.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.85%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.85%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Firebase
2 4 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (7.69%) BrowserStack
2 4 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) AWS
3 1 (1.92%) Boomi
3 1 (1.92%) GCP
3 1 (1.92%) OCI
3 1 (1.92%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) Appium
2 8 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 8 (15.38%) JMeter
2 8 (15.38%) Postman
3 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.62%) Git
4 5 (9.62%) GitLab
5 4 (7.69%) Selenium
5 4 (7.69%) Subversion
6 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.85%) ClearCase
7 2 (3.85%) ClearQuest
7 2 (3.85%) UI Automator
7 2 (3.85%) XCUITest
8 1 (1.92%) Bugzilla
8 1 (1.92%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.92%) JUnit
8 1 (1.92%) TestNG
8 1 (1.92%) TestRail
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Analyst
2 11 (21.15%) Test Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Test Manager
4 6 (11.54%) Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) ABAP Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 4 (7.69%) QA Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) QA Tester
6 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Automation Tester
8 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Business Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Web Services
2 5 (9.62%) Middleware
2 5 (9.62%) WebdriverIO
3 4 (7.69%) BAPI
4 3 (5.77%) CSS
4 3 (5.77%) Gherkin
4 3 (5.77%) HTML
5 2 (3.85%) JSON
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.85%) SAP Basis
5 2 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (1.92%) Flash
6 1 (1.92%) HTML5
6 1 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 4 (7.69%) Device Driver
1 4 (7.69%) Life Science
2 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.92%) Digital TV
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Android
1 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Agile
2 25 (48.08%) Test Automation
3 17 (32.69%) Test Planning
3 17 (32.69%) Test Strategy
4 16 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (26.92%) Software Testing
6 13 (25.00%) Test Management
7 11 (21.15%) Scrum
7 11 (21.15%) Test Scripting
8 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (19.23%) Defect Management
9 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
9 9 (17.31%) Code Quality
9 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
10 8 (15.38%) Validation
11 7 (13.46%) Analytics
11 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
12 6 (11.54%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
2 8 (15.38%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) ABAP
4 4 (7.69%) Assembly Language
4 4 (7.69%) C
4 4 (7.69%) C++
4 4 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) MATLAB
4 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 4 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.85%) Swift
6 1 (1.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Master's Degree
3 8 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) PhD
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) ISEB
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (36.54%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) JTAG
3 3 (5.77%) HL7
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Firmware
2 4 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) SAP
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (1.92%) Dell
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce