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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 53 74
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% 1.58% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.78% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £407 £381 £409
25th Percentile £408 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £420 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -26.96% +12.20%
75th Percentile £433 £438 £600
90th Percentile £436 £538 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £372 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -12.47% - -10.53%

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 785 506 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.98% 88.77% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 306 668
10th Percentile £290 £263 £281
25th Percentile £401 £366 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £657 £675 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 26
10th Percentile £13.65 £15.25 £11.43
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £12.53
Median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.12
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% +117.07% -55.25%
75th Percentile £26.23 £41.50 £22.55
90th Percentile £74.00 £98.79 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.28% +32.69% +45.81%

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 3 February 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 -22 2 £425 -32.00%
Bradford -14 1 £413 -0.60% 1
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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) IOS XR
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TACACS
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manual Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Rainbow Teams
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ciena
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki