Defect Tracking Contracts in Lancashire

Defect Tracking
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
North West median daily rate £413 - £508
% change year-on-year - - -0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 156 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 88.32% 72.56% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 132
10th Percentile £356 £205 £325
25th Percentile £425 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £631
90th Percentile £653 £742 £699
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 49 57
10th Percentile £16.09 - £20.58
25th Percentile £25.84 £16.06 £28.70
Median hourly rate £40.83 £27.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.45% -35.29% +12.43%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £49.52
90th Percentile £71.06 £48.00 £56.84
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +32.47%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in Lancashire

Defect Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in Lancashire

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Preston - 2 £400 -
Defect Tracking
North West

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CyberArk