Defect Tracking Contracts in England

Defect Tracking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 493 621
Rank change year-on-year +47 +128 +89
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 39 49 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 18
10th Percentile £294 £394 £319
25th Percentile £313 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year -19.21% +9.20% +13.36%
75th Percentile £500 £517 £484
90th Percentile £579 £618 £503
UK median daily rate £390 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -17.89% +5.56% +17.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £60.50 -
% change year-on-year -7.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Defect Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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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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 1 May 2025. 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 +41 21 £368 -19.78% 26
South East +42 6 £463 +15.63% 24
South West - 5 £403 - 13
North of England +14 3 £420 -18.76% 21
Midlands +19 2 £288 -36.11% 21
West Midlands +11 2 £288 -36.11% 11
North East - 2 £390 - 3
Yorkshire +2 1 £450 -12.96% 7
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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 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Drupal
2 1 (2.56%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (2.56%) LabWindows
3 1 (2.56%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (2.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.26%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) OCI
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.56%) 4G
1 1 (2.56%) 5G
1 1 (2.56%) Intranet
1 1 (2.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Power Query
3 1 (2.56%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.13%) JUnit
3 2 (5.13%) TestRail
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.56%) TestComplete
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Back Office
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
4 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Tester
3 5 (12.82%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Test Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) QA Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Manual Tester
6 2 (5.13%) OSS Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.13%) QA Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) REST
1 4 (10.26%) SOAP
1 4 (10.26%) Web Services
2 1 (2.56%) MDX
2 1 (2.56%) Playwright
2 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.56%) EPoS
2 1 (2.56%) FPGA
2 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Android
1 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
1 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
1 17 (43.59%) Test Strategy
2 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (33.33%) Test Management
4 9 (23.08%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Integration Testing
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Regression Testing
5 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (20.51%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Defect Management
6 7 (17.95%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Manual Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (17.95%) Test Planning
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
7 6 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) C#
3 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.13%) Python
5 1 (2.56%) C
5 1 (2.56%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.13%) PMP
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.13%) Cramer
2 2 (5.13%) Infoblox
2 2 (5.13%) Murex
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Remedy
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.56%) Avaloq
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.56%) Sitecore