Defect Tracking Contracts in Somerset

Defect Tracking
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 0.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £403 - £450

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 154 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.53% 75.86% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 140
10th Percentile £263 £159 £234
25th Percentile £413 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £664
90th Percentile £775 £613 £724
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in Somerset

Defect Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in Somerset

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bath - 1 £450 - 2
Defect Tracking
South West

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA