Defect Management Jobs in Dorset

Defect Management
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Defect Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Defect Management over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 1 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 0.19% 0.76% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.90% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median annual salary - £55,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year - -17.91% +44.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 891 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 87.78% 84.38% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 215 458 340
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,350 £32,963
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% - +10.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Dorset

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Dorset.

Salary trend for Defect Management in Dorset

Defect Management
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Bournemouth +40 1 - - 1
Defect Management
South West

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python