Defect Tracking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 441 470
Rank change year-on-year +81 +29 -79
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 33 18 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.075% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.084% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 17
10th Percentile £395 £319 £325
25th Percentile £446 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £409
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +2.69% +14.81%
75th Percentile £504 £475 £500
90th Percentile £571 £500 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £384
% change year-on-year +5.56% +17.26% -1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £54.45 - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £25.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Defect Tracking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
South East +24 10 £400 -4.76% 2
Scotland - 9 £475 -
North of England +34 8 £517 +13.94% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
Midlands +31 5 £450 -10.00% 2
West Midlands +31 5 £450 -10.00% 2
North West +23 1 - - 3
East of England +13 1 £440 +35.38% 2
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Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) NetSuite
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) OCI
2 1 (3.03%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Internet
1 4 (12.12%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) Subversion
4 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.09%) JMeter
4 3 (9.09%) Postman
5 2 (6.06%) Appium
5 2 (6.06%) ClearCase
5 2 (6.06%) ClearQuest
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) UI Automator
5 2 (6.06%) XCUITest
6 1 (3.03%) Gerrit
6 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
1 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Electronics
5 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Test Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) UAT Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Test Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Automation Test Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Junior Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Web Services
2 3 (9.09%) CSS
2 3 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) Flash
4 1 (3.03%) HTML5
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Device Driver
2 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.12%) IoT
2 4 (12.12%) PCIe
2 4 (12.12%) Verilog
2 4 (12.12%) VHDL
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Digital TV
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (12.12%) VxWorks
3 2 (6.06%) Android
3 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Test Strategy
2 15 (45.45%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Test Automation
4 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
4 10 (30.30%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (24.24%) Software Testing
6 8 (24.24%) Test Scripting
7 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
7 7 (21.21%) Test Planning
8 6 (18.18%) Scrum
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Memory Management
10 4 (12.12%) Requirements Management
10 4 (12.12%) Signal Processing
10 4 (12.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) C
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Assembly Language
3 4 (12.12%) C++
3 4 (12.12%) Embedded C
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) MATLAB
3 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.06%) Swift
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) ISTQB
2 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
2 4 (12.12%) PhD
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) JTAG
2 4 (12.12%) MISRA
2 4 (12.12%) MISRA C
3 2 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.03%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Firmware
2 4 (12.12%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
2 4 (12.12%) Intel
3 2 (6.06%) HP
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce