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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +49
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 12 24
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.56% 1.55% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.81% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £439 £388 £413
25th Percentile £445 £402 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £411 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -25.23% +30.95%
75th Percentile £465 £438 £600
90th Percentile £471 £498 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £405 £415 £550
% change year-on-year -2.41% -24.55% +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 774 664 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.58% 85.79% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 411 745
10th Percentile £290 £325 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £611
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 16
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £19.19 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%
75th Percentile £46.56 £37.50 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%

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 6 November 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 -13 3 £475 -24.00% 1
Bradford -12 2 £435 +6.75%
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 (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%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
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%) Validation
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