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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 6 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 2.01% - 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% - 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £62,500
75th Percentile £43,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile £46,000 - -
Dorset median annual salary £42,500 - £47,500

All Process & 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 244 59 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 81.88% 96.72% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 127 38 284
10th Percentile £29,200 - £31,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £75,000
Dorset median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -

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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Bug Management
3 4 (66.67%) Business Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow
4 3 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Lean Thinking
4 3 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Time Management
4 3 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk