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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 424 466
Rank change year-on-year +68 +42 -55
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 35 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.098% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 16
10th Percentile £353 £368 £324
25th Percentile £398 £410 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £395
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +14.07% -1.38%
75th Percentile £504 £475 £488
90th Percentile £546 £500 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50

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 17,047 20,460 27,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.14% 89.36% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,194 14,069 18,950
10th Percentile £250 £260 £237
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,252 1,360
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

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 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
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 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 +22 12 £395 -5.95% 1
Scotland +45 9 £475 +2.70% 1
North of England +40 8 £517 +13.94% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
Midlands +28 5 £450 -10.00% 3
West Midlands +26 5 £450 -10.00% 3
North West +20 1 - -
East of England +10 1 £440 +35.38% 2
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) NetSuite
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) AWS
1 2 (5.71%) OCI
2 1 (2.86%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Internet
1 4 (11.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MariaDB
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 5 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) Selenium
3 4 (11.43%) Subversion
4 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.57%) JMeter
4 3 (8.57%) Postman
5 2 (5.71%) Appium
5 2 (5.71%) ClearCase
5 2 (5.71%) ClearQuest
5 2 (5.71%) UI Automator
5 2 (5.71%) XCUITest
6 1 (2.86%) Gerrit
6 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 4 (11.43%) Aerospace
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Electronics
6 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Embedded Engineer
1 8 (22.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (22.86%) Software Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Test Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Test Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Manual Tester
5 3 (8.57%) QA Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) UAT Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Junior Tester
7 1 (2.86%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
3 2 (5.71%) XML
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Device Driver
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) IoT
2 4 (11.43%) Life Science
2 4 (11.43%) PCIe
2 4 (11.43%) Verilog
2 4 (11.43%) VHDL
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (11.43%) VxWorks
3 2 (5.71%) Android
3 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Agile
2 17 (48.57%) Test Automation
2 17 (48.57%) Test Strategy
3 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
4 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
7 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (22.86%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (22.86%) Test Scripting
8 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.00%) Test Planning
9 6 (17.14%) Scrum
9 6 (17.14%) Test Management
10 4 (11.43%) Memory Management
10 4 (11.43%) Requirements Management
10 4 (11.43%) Signal Processing
10 4 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) C
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Assembly Language
3 4 (11.43%) C++
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded C
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) MATLAB
3 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.71%) Swift
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) ISTQB
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.43%) PhD
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) JTAG
2 4 (11.43%) MISRA
2 4 (11.43%) MISRA C
3 3 (8.57%) HL7
4 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Firmware
2 4 (11.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
1 4 (11.43%) Intel
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) HP
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce