Defect Management Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Defect Management
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 2.30% - 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% - 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £321 - £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - £425
75th Percentile £371 - -
90th Percentile £381 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £405 £415 £550
% change year-on-year -2.41% -24.55% +30.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

Defect Management 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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 91 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 81.61% 73.39% 71.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 84
10th Percentile £120 £178 £180
25th Percentile £153 £218 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% -3.41% +13.55%
75th Percentile £506 £572 £500
90th Percentile £634 £700 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 6
10th Percentile £17.42 £12.05 -
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £38.50
90th Percentile - - £44.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £18.64 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.65% -12.55% +12.16%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Middlesbrough - 2 £345 -
Defect Management
Yorkshire

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft