Defect Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Defect Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 88 93
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +40
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 5 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.32% 1.13% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.35% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 12
10th Percentile £439 £398 £425
25th Percentile £445 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -22.73% +30.95%
75th Percentile £465 £466 £581
90th Percentile £471 £485 £600
England median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Defect Management 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,398 1,260 1,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.54% 83.78% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 758 1,184
10th Percentile £240 £309 £306
25th Percentile £375 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £623
90th Percentile £638 £657 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 44 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £69.75 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Yorkshire

Defect Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Defect Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
West Yorkshire -20 5 £455 +7.06% 2
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Service Design
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Nokia