Defect Tracking Contracts in the North of England

Defect Tracking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 163 177 217
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 +12
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 3 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.17% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.20% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £396 £477 £410
25th Percentile £405 £492 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £517 £454
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +13.94% -4.47%
75th Percentile £435 - £483
90th Percentile £444 - £500
England median daily rate £384 £475 £435
% change year-on-year -19.21% +9.20% +13.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North East - 2 £390 - 3
Yorkshire +2 1 £450 -12.96% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) LabWindows
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian