Defect Management Jobs in the East Midlands

Defect Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Defect Management 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.084% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £48,507 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -11.81% +2.33% -2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 3,291 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.93% 76.34% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,808 1,056
10th Percentile £26,208 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -15.49% +12.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -2.65% -8.88% +3.35%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the East Midlands

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 2 £65,000 -
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Java