Defect Tracking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 360 414
Rank change year-on-year +50 +54 +56
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 20 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 19
10th Percentile £320 £353 £319
25th Percentile £390 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +14.07%
75th Percentile £469 £504 £475
90th Percentile £488 £546 £500
UK median daily rate £415 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £52.80 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £62.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% - -
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £59.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £62.75 -
% change year-on-year -10.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 May 2025.

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
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 22 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
South East +41 6 £463 +17.09% 21
South West - 5 £403 - 4
North of England +14 4 £425 -17.79% 9
Scotland +2 3 £475 - 14
Midlands +10 2 £425 -5.56% 4
West Midlands +9 2 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire +4 2 £438 -15.38% 1
North East - 2 £390 - 1
Defect Tracking
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) LabWindows
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (5.00%) 4G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) Intranet
1 1 (5.00%) LTE
1 1 (5.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Selenium
3 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.00%) JMeter
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) LabVIEW
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.00%) Postman
5 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) TestNG
5 1 (5.00%) TestRail
5 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) OSS Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Playwright
1 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) FPGA
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) EPoS
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 9 (45.00%) Test Management
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (25.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (20.00%) Defect Management
8 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Regression Testing
8 4 (20.00%) System Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Migration
9 3 (15.00%) Project Management
9 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C
1 2 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) Cramer
1 2 (10.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle