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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 79 74
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 +59
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 8 15 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.44% 1.13% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.32% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 19
10th Percentile £330 £391 £412
25th Percentile £363 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -20.95% +25.00%
75th Percentile £435 £438 £575
90th Percentile £437 £523 £600
England median daily rate £434 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -2.53% -1.11% -10.00%

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 1,627 1,137 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.59% 85.81% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 658 1,051
10th Percentile £230 £241 £300
25th Percentile £375 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £677 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 38 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.07 £14.68 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.50 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +22.68% -5.33% +13.97%
75th Percentile £25.83 £33.75 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £45.93 £40.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 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 -12 6 £425 +3.34% 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) IOS XR
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (12.50%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) TACACS
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) TestRail
1 3 (37.50%) Zephyr
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) FHIR
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) API Testing
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Ciena
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia