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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 59 73
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +35
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.66% 1.88% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.21% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 9
10th Percentile £439 £398 £475
25th Percentile £445 £404 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -22.73% +34.15%
75th Percentile £465 £466 £600
90th Percentile £471 £485 £605
Yorkshire median daily rate £455 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +7.06% -22.73% +30.95%

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 667 725 1,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.11% 85.39% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 466 824
10th Percentile £276 £357 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £655 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 21
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile - £13.87 £13.17
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +15.28% -12.20%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management 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 19 September 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 0 3 £475 -24.00% 1
Bradford -13 2 £435 +2.35%
Defect Management
Yorkshire

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Service Design
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Nokia