Defect Tracking Job Trends in Dorset

Defect Tracking
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 48 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 1 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.22% 0.52% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.57% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £54,125
25th Percentile - £29,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £31,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -49.60% -
75th Percentile - £33,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary - £31,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -49.60% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 350 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.78% 90.91% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 267 185 282
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Dorset

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Defect Tracking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
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 Tracking within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 11 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
Bournemouth - 1 - - 3
Defect Tracking
South West

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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