Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 108 112
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.069% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £288 £450
Median % change year-on-year +71.13% -36.11% -
England median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,969 1,444 1,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.09% 86.31% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 910 1,047
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £582 £612 £600
90th Percentile £674 £714 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 49 48
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.42
25th Percentile £16.10 £16.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +29.94%
75th Percentile £30.00 £33.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £40.28 £52.50 £67.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Shropshire - 1 £492 -
Defect Tracking
England

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Workday Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Workday