Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Defect Tracking
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £288 £450
% change year-on-year +71.13% -36.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 319 100 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.64% 87.72% 73.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 68 22
10th Percentile £400 £221 £264
25th Percentile £444 £360 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £450
90th Percentile £552 £567 £532
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% - -
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +29.94%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Telford - 1 £492 -
Defect Tracking
West Midlands

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes