Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Defect Tracking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.088% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £335 £438 £517
% change year-on-year -23.43% -15.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 965 616 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.50% 95.65% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 406 221
10th Percentile £363 £300 £238
25th Percentile £431 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -8.65% -11.48%
75th Percentile £581 £548 £588
90th Percentile £675 £643 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile - £14.66 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%
75th Percentile £22.72 £20.44 £18.81
90th Percentile £24.29 £25.15 £21.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £22.58 £18.25
% change year-on-year -15.84% +23.70% -10.98%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Sheffield - 1 £335 - 1
Defect Tracking
Yorkshire

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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