Defect Tracking Contracts

Defect Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 653 766
Rank change year-on-year +131 +113 -146
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 57 47 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.078% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 44
10th Percentile £398 £324 £334
25th Percentile £431 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% +5.54%
75th Percentile £500 - £500
90th Percentile £625 £485 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £54.45 - £17.68
25th Percentile £60.25 - £20.56
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £25.75
75th Percentile £65.00 - £30.56
90th Percentile - - £33.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +130 47 £471 +12.20% 18
UK excluding London +83 32 £475 +13.10% 13
Work from Home +115 24 £475 +5.56% 6
London +116 17 £450 +7.46% 4
South East +30 9 £400 -4.76% 1
Scotland - 9 £475 -
North of England +32 8 £517 +13.94% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
West Midlands +34 5 £450 -10.00% 3
Midlands +31 5 £450 -10.00% 3
North West +19 1 - - 2
East of England +13 1 £440 +35.38% 2

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.51%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.51%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.77%) Firebase
2 4 (7.02%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (7.02%) BrowserStack
2 4 (7.02%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (1.75%) Boomi
4 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Internet
1 4 (7.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) JIRA
2 8 (14.04%) Appium
2 8 (14.04%) Cypress.io
2 8 (14.04%) Postman
3 7 (12.28%) JMeter
4 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.77%) Git
5 5 (8.77%) GitLab
6 4 (7.02%) Subversion
7 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.26%) Selenium
8 2 (3.51%) ClearCase
8 2 (3.51%) ClearQuest
8 2 (3.51%) UI Automator
8 2 (3.51%) XCUITest
9 1 (1.75%) Gerrit
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.02%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.02%) Electronics
4 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Analyst
2 11 (19.30%) Test Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Consultant
4 6 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (10.53%) Tester
5 5 (8.77%) Test Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) UAT Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) ABAP Consultant
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Oracle Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) QA Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) QA Tester
6 4 (7.02%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.51%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Middleware
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (8.77%) WebdriverIO
2 4 (7.02%) BAPI
3 3 (5.26%) CSS
3 3 (5.26%) Gherkin
3 3 (5.26%) HTML
3 3 (5.26%) Web Services
4 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 2 (3.51%) SAP Basis
4 2 (3.51%) XML
5 1 (1.75%) Flash
5 1 (1.75%) HTML5
5 1 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Device Driver
2 4 (7.02%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.02%) IoT
2 4 (7.02%) PCIe
2 4 (7.02%) Verilog
2 4 (7.02%) VHDL
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.75%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.75%) Life Science
5 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (7.02%) VxWorks
3 2 (3.51%) Android
3 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Agile
2 21 (36.84%) Test Automation
3 18 (31.58%) Test Planning
4 17 (29.82%) Test Strategy
5 14 (24.56%) Computer Science
6 13 (22.81%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (22.81%) Software Engineering
7 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (19.30%) Defect Management
8 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
8 11 (19.30%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (17.54%) Scrum
9 10 (17.54%) Software Testing
10 9 (15.79%) Code Quality
11 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (14.04%) Test Management
11 8 (14.04%) Validation
12 7 (12.28%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 8 (14.04%) C
3 7 (12.28%) Python
4 5 (8.77%) ABAP
5 4 (7.02%) Assembly Language
5 4 (7.02%) C++
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded C
5 4 (7.02%) MATLAB
5 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.26%) Java
6 3 (5.26%) SQL
7 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.51%) Swift
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Master's Degree
3 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.77%) ISTQB
6 4 (7.02%) PhD
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) ISEB
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.58%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) JTAG
2 4 (7.02%) MISRA
2 4 (7.02%) MISRA C
3 2 (3.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.75%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Firmware
2 4 (7.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) SAP
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.02%) Intel
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) HP
5 1 (1.75%) Dell
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce