Defect Tracking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Defect Tracking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 320 447
Rank change year-on-year +34 +127 +142
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 18 25 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 20
10th Percentile £310 £428 £410
25th Percentile £350 £452 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +5.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £517 -
90th Percentile £588 £628 -
UK median daily rate £390 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -17.89% +5.56% +17.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £60.50 -
% change year-on-year -7.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Defect Tracking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Defect Tracking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Defect Tracking.

Defect Tracking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Defect Tracking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Drupal
2 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (5.56%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (5.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
2 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 4 (22.22%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.56%) TestComplete
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Back Office
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Test Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) REST
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) EPoS
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
3 6 (33.33%) CRM
3 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Test Management
5 4 (22.22%) Test Planning
5 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Avaloq
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) Murex
2 1 (5.56%) Optimizely
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Sitecore