Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Defect Tracking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% - 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £400
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £458 - -
South East median daily rate £403 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +0.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £413 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £373 -
Defect Tracking
South East

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Management
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) TMMi
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow