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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 317 419
Rank change year-on-year +32 +102 +152
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 29 30 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 27
10th Percentile £350 £371 £406
25th Percentile £379 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% +3.89% +7.91%
75th Percentile £469 £517 £500
90th Percentile £538 £606 -
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £62.75 -
% change year-on-year -10.76% - -

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 9,339 12,721 21,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,324 8,559 15,315
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 553 523
10th Percentile £12.70 £15.03 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

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 6 July 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 (13.79%) SharePoint
1 4 (13.79%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) Appian
2 1 (3.45%) Camunda
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (6.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (3.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (3.45%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (3.45%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (13.79%) Power Automate
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Algolia
4 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (58.62%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) JMeter
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.45%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.45%) TestNG
5 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Banking
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Retail
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Tester
3 4 (13.79%) Banking Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Payments Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Test Leader
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Manual Tester
5 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) QA Manual Tester
5 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) OAT Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) REST
1 4 (13.79%) SOAP
1 4 (13.79%) Web Services
2 3 (10.34%) Playwright
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
1 4 (13.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.45%) EPoS
2 1 (3.45%) SCADA
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
2 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Integration Testing
3 9 (31.03%) Test Strategy
4 8 (27.59%) Test Management
5 7 (24.14%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (24.14%) Manual Testing
5 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) CRM
7 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.24%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (17.24%) System Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Test Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.90%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) ISO 20022
2 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) SEPA
3 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.90%) WCAG
5 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Tivoli
2 2 (6.90%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) IBM
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.45%) Murex
4 1 (3.45%) OpenText
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce