Defect Tracking Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Defect Tracking
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.77% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £538 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £463 £513 -
% change year-on-year -9.76% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Defect Tracking 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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 406 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.97% 91.03% 83.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 258 398
10th Percentile £363 £305 £363
25th Percentile £460 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.51% -2.23%
75th Percentile £631 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £693 £737
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 8
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.80 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £37.43 £22.50 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year +66.34% +75.92% -78.68%
75th Percentile £85.25 £25.15 -
90th Percentile - £25.83 -
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +6.18%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Tracking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Defect Tracking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Swindon -9 6 £525 -8.70%
Defect Tracking
South West

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 5 (83.33%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Postman
1 6 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Playwright
2 5 (83.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Integration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Apex Code
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (83.33%) Conga
2 5 (83.33%) GoCardless