Defect Tracking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Defect Tracking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 445 575
Rank change year-on-year +128 +130 -100
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 27 29 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 15
10th Percentile £373 £409 £319
25th Percentile £442 £440 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £360
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +25.00% -10.89%
75th Percentile £525 - £481
90th Percentile £622 - £515
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Defect Tracking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Defect Tracking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Defect Tracking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) BlazeMeter
1 2 (7.41%) BrowserStack
1 2 (7.41%) Firebase
1 2 (7.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) OCI
2 1 (3.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) JMeter
3 4 (14.81%) Appium
3 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
3 4 (14.81%) Git
3 4 (14.81%) Postman
3 4 (14.81%) Subversion
4 3 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (11.11%) Selenium
5 2 (7.41%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (7.41%) UI Automator
5 2 (7.41%) XCUITest
6 1 (3.70%) Bugzilla
6 1 (3.70%) JUnit
6 1 (3.70%) TestNG
6 1 (3.70%) TestRail
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Test Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Test Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) QA Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Tester
4 3 (11.11%) UAT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Test Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Gherkin
1 3 (11.11%) Web Services
2 2 (7.41%) Middleware
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.41%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
1 4 (14.81%) Device Driver
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (11.11%) Life Science
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Android
1 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
1 16 (59.26%) Test Automation
2 14 (51.85%) Test Strategy
3 11 (40.74%) Test Planning
4 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Scenario Testing
5 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Test Management
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (22.22%) Scrum
6 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Validation
7 5 (18.52%) Functional Testing
7 5 (18.52%) User Stories
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) Assembly Language
2 4 (14.81%) C
2 4 (14.81%) C++
2 4 (14.81%) MATLAB
2 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
4 2 (7.41%) Swift
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
1 5 (18.52%) ISTQB
2 4 (14.81%) Master's Degree
2 4 (14.81%) PhD
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) JTAG
3 2 (7.41%) HL7
4 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (14.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft