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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 110 93
Rank change year-on-year -30 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 14 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.27% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.29% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £325 £439 £404
25th Percentile £333 £445 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +1.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £545 £465 £474
90th Percentile £601 £471 £482
England median daily rate £500 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -10.00%

All Process & 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 2,418 1,380 1,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.25% 91.51% 83.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 862 777
10th Percentile £331 £263 £316
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 62 48
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.58 -
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.39 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £76.57 £38.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Defect Management job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Management in Yorkshire

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 8 August 2026. 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 -26 7 £413 -9.34% 1
South Yorkshire - 7 £425 - 1
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Apigee
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
3 1 (7.14%) NeoLoad
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) International Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Functional Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Test Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Identity Management Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Identity Management Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Playwright
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) API Testing
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
5 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) System Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) ISO 20022
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) Concur
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow