Defect Management Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Defect Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 70 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +19
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 9 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.65% 0.53% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.60% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £314 £439 £398
25th Percentile £390 £445 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +7.06% -22.73%
75th Percentile £575 £465 £466
90th Percentile £613 £471 £485
Yorkshire median daily rate £406 £455 £425
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.06% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Defect Management 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,162 662 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.78% 88.15% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 429 467
10th Percentile £325 £281 £354
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £651 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 24
10th Percentile £16.06 £18.87 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +6.70% +15.28%
75th Percentile £35.00 £74.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.09 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.26% +26.51% -12.50%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in West Yorkshire

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Leeds -18 8 £401 -15.53% 7
Defect Management
Yorkshire

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Apigee
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
2 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Functional Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Test Planning
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Order Management
4 2 (22.22%) Rainbow Teams
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Traceability Matrix
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) WCAG
3 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Ariba
1 1 (11.11%) Concur
1 1 (11.11%) SAP