Defect Tracking Contracts in Scotland

Defect Tracking
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 163 171
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 9 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.11% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.12% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £355 £406 £302
25th Percentile £400 £414 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £310
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +39.11% -34.74%
75th Percentile £488 £452 £315
90th Percentile £495 £462 £318
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £384
% change year-on-year +5.56% +17.26% -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Defect Tracking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,536 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.55% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,814 2,263
10th Percentile £225 £261 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +39 7 £475 +10.14%
Glasgow - 2 £375 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (22.22%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Electronics
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) UAT Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Device Driver
1 4 (44.44%) IoT
1 4 (44.44%) PCIe
1 4 (44.44%) Verilog
1 4 (44.44%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (44.44%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Code Optimisation
2 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Device Driver Development
2 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
2 4 (44.44%) Requirements Management
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Order to Cash
4 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (22.22%) Record to Report
5 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded C
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) MISRA
1 4 (44.44%) MISRA C
2 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Atlassian
1 4 (44.44%) Intel
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle