Defect Management Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Defect Management
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Defect Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.15% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £46,000 - £56,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,080 875 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.14% 94.29% 92.17%
Number of salaries quoted 622 411 542
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 2 £52,500 -
Defect Management
South East

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared