Defect Management Job Trends in Bournemouth

Defect Management
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth 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 33 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 2 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 0.69% - 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 243 60 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 83.51% 96.77% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 123 41 265
10th Percentile £30,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Dorset median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft