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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +46
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 6 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.66% 1.59% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.85% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £408 £388 £413
25th Percentile £409 £402 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £411 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% -25.23% +30.95%
75th Percentile £436 £438 £600
90th Percentile £437 £498 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £415 £525
% change year-on-year -0.60% -20.95% +25.00%

All Process and 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 782 649 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.41% 86.07% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 399 707
10th Percentile £284 £300 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 13
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.38 £13.60
25th Percentile £19.36 £18.14 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £39.44 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £84.52 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.76% -3.02% +3.12%

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
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 5 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
Leeds -11 3 £425 -32.00% 1
Bradford -13 3 £424 +3.99%
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) IOS XR
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) TACACS
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) TestRail
1 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Management
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Rainbow Teams
5 1 (16.67%) Service Design
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Ciena
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia