Defect Tracking Contracts in Yorkshire

Defect Tracking
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 101 107
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +45
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Defect Tracking 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £416 £477 £478
25th Percentile £422 £492 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £517 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +0.83% -
75th Percentile £447 - £517
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £425 £445 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% -11.00% +1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Defect Tracking 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,389 1,266 1,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.32% 83.02% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 769 1,155
10th Percentile £263 £320 £300
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 52 33
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.15 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £44.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 Tracking within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -6 3 £438 -15.38%
Defect Tracking
England

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) CRM Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft