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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 107 90
Rank change year-on-year -27 -17 0
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 15 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.52% 0.26% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.29% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 11
10th Percentile £326 £439 £398
25th Percentile £334 £445 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.06% -22.73%
75th Percentile £529 £465 £470
90th Percentile £598 £471 £486
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 2,412 1,389 1,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.75% 91.32% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,457 877 769
10th Percentile £325 £263 £320
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 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 61 52
10th Percentile £14.18 £16.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.35 £12.45
Median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £28.25 £25.15 £22.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 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 22 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 -21 7 £413 -9.34%
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Apigee
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Neo4j
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.67%) NeoLoad
3 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) International Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Management Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Management Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
4 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Validation
4 4 (26.67%) API Testing
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Test Management
5 3 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Concur
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Okta
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow