Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Defect Tracking
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.096% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £335 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 563 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.53% 95.75% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 371 202
10th Percentile £375 £312 £300
25th Percentile £439 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -9.09% -11.06%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £588
90th Percentile £681 £638 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.47% -8.65% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £14.66 £15.05
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% -10.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £20.44 £21.50
90th Percentile - £25.15 £21.80
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
% change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022