Defect Management Job Trends in Birmingham

Defect Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Defect Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.034% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% - 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 - £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £35,000 - £44,375
90th Percentile - - £58,472
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £58,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -23.40% +46.88% -28.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Defect Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,096 1,181 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 71.88% 94.71% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 761 1,832
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,939 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Junior QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA