Defect Tracking Contracts in Scotland

Defect Tracking
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +8
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.47% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £355 £411
25th Percentile £463 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +49.19%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £469
90th Percentile - £495 -
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £62.75 -
% change year-on-year -10.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 1,901 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.38% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,165 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £553
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 54
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £52.25
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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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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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 17 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
Edinburgh +2 2 £475 - 5
Defect Tracking
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 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (50.00%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft