Defect Tracking Contracts with Work from Home 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 421 577
Rank change year-on-year +110 +156 -90
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 30 36 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 18
10th Percentile £383 £410 £309
25th Percentile £419 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £385
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +17.04% -10.58%
75th Percentile £534 - £475
90th Percentile £613 £469 £508
UK median daily rate £468 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +3.89% +16.13% -5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 5 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
1 5 (16.67%) BrowserStack
1 5 (16.67%) Firebase
1 5 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) JIRA
2 10 (33.33%) JMeter
3 7 (23.33%) Cypress.io
3 7 (23.33%) Postman
4 6 (20.00%) Appium
5 5 (16.67%) GitLab
5 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 5 (16.67%) Selenium
6 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (13.33%) Git
6 4 (13.33%) Subversion
7 2 (6.67%) Bugzilla
7 2 (6.67%) JUnit
7 2 (6.67%) TestNG
7 2 (6.67%) TestRail
8 1 (3.33%) UI Automator
8 1 (3.33%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Tester
3 5 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 5 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) QA Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Test Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Defect Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Middleware
1 5 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 4 (13.33%) Device Driver
2 3 (10.00%) Life Science
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) Test Automation
3 14 (46.67%) Test Planning
4 13 (43.33%) Test Strategy
5 11 (36.67%) Test Management
6 10 (33.33%) Analytics
6 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 10 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (33.33%) Scrum
7 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (30.00%) Validation
8 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
8 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (20.00%) Functional Testing
10 6 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
11 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
11 5 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) Assembly Language
3 4 (13.33%) C
3 4 (13.33%) C++
3 4 (13.33%) MATLAB
3 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 4 (13.33%) PhD
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) JTAG
3 2 (6.67%) HL7
4 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Google
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle