Defect Tracking Job Trends in Bournemouth

Defect Tracking
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 0.78% - 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £65,000
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary - £31,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -51.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

Defect Tracking 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 108 171 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 84.38% 89.06% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 71 115 117
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,900 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £37,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.50% -9.09% +10.00%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Defect Tracking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk