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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 68 80
Rank change year-on-year -50 +12 +49
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 10 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.53% 1.35% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.56% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 17
10th Percentile £341 £391 £411
25th Percentile £355 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £415 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £423 £438 £575
90th Percentile £436 £523 £600
England median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%

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 1,661 896 1,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.82% 86.65% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 529 997
10th Percentile £275 £234 £281
25th Percentile £385 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £548 £573 £600
90th Percentile £639 £682 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 38
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.18 £10.97
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.75 £13.23
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% -1.73% +22.77%
75th Percentile £51.81 £38.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £57.33 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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
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 11 January 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 -24 5 £425 +3.34% 2
South Yorkshire -51 3 £355 -27.18% 2
North Yorkshire - 2 £345 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) FTP
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) IOS XR
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (10.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) TACACS
3 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (30.00%) Zephyr
3 2 (20.00%) TestRail
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) FHIR
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenID
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) API Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ciena
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow