Issue Tracking Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Issue Tracking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Issue Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.34% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Issue 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 752 430 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 84.88% 92.08% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 281 415
10th Percentile £327 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £673
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 24
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.27 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -56.21% +169.19% -45.33%
75th Percentile £24.29 £100.28 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £14.82
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.50 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year -7.41% +76.70% -37.35%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Issue Tracking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Issue Tracking job vacancy trend in Leeds

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Issue Tracking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Issue Tracking

Issue Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Change Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Governance Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk