Defect Management Job Trends in England

Defect Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Defect Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 623 583
Rank change year-on-year +93 -40 +17
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 76 50 92
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 58
10th Percentile £33,375 £36,400 £41,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £58,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £68,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +22.32% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £81,875 £68,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +21.43% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,678 44,368 42,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.92% 90.27% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,472 22,014 32,621
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Defect Management job vacancy trend in England

Defect Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East - 32 £46,000 - 14
London +67 26 £71,500 -5.92% 27
South West +11 6 £65,000 -25.71% 5
North of England +21 4 £35,000 +0.74% 3
North East - 4 £35,000 -
East of England +22 3 £75,000 +100.00% 5
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
1 4 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (38.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.89%) SAP CO
2 6 (7.89%) SAP FI
2 6 (7.89%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.74%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (22.37%) Azure
3 7 (9.21%) AWS
4 5 (6.58%) BrowserStack
5 4 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.95%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (3.95%) Datadog
6 3 (3.95%) OCI
7 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.63%) GCP
8 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) WAN
2 5 (6.58%) LAN
2 5 (6.58%) SAN
2 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.26%) Internet
3 4 (5.26%) SSL
3 4 (5.26%) VoIP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.32%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.32%) FTP
4 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.32%) SNMP
4 1 (1.32%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.32%) SSH
4 1 (1.32%) TACACS
4 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.95%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 38 (50.00%) JIRA
2 22 (28.95%) eCATT
3 13 (17.11%) Selenium
4 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.21%) Postman
5 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.58%) Git
6 4 (5.26%) SpecFlow
6 4 (5.26%) TestNG
6 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio
6 4 (5.26%) WebDriver
7 3 (3.95%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (3.95%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (3.95%) Fiddler
7 3 (3.95%) GitLab
7 3 (3.95%) Maven
7 3 (3.95%) NUnit
7 3 (3.95%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.95%) TestRail
7 3 (3.95%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (39.47%) Finance
2 23 (30.26%) Manufacturing
2 23 (30.26%) Marketing
3 19 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 19 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Law
7 5 (6.58%) Electronics
8 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.63%) Legal
10 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.32%) Advertising
11 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Analyst
2 14 (18.42%) Senior
3 11 (14.47%) Lead
4 9 (11.84%) Consultant
5 7 (9.21%) Quality Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 6 (7.89%) SAP CO Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) SAP FI Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Test Leader
6 6 (7.89%) Test Manager
7 5 (6.58%) SAP PS Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (6.58%) XML
2 4 (5.26%) .NET
2 4 (5.26%) Playwright
3 3 (3.95%) REST
4 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (1.32%) React
5 1 (1.32%) Spring
5 1 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Clustering
3 3 (3.95%) W3C
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Windows
1 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.68%) Test Management
2 30 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (35.53%) Test Automation
4 26 (34.21%) Risk Management
5 25 (32.89%) Agile
6 24 (31.58%) ERP
7 22 (28.95%) Source to Pay
8 20 (26.32%) Software Testing
9 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 19 (25.00%) Visualisation
10 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (22.37%) Manual Testing
12 15 (19.74%) DevOps
13 14 (18.42%) Test Strategy
13 14 (18.42%) Validation
14 13 (17.11%) Integration Testing
15 12 (15.79%) Regression Testing
15 12 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
16 11 (14.47%) Functional Testing
16 11 (14.47%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) Python
2 10 (13.16%) Java
3 9 (11.84%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) ABAP
4 6 (7.89%) C#
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.95%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.42%) ISTQB
3 12 (15.79%) Degree
4 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.58%) SAP Certification
6 4 (5.26%) ISEB
7 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.32%) Dell Certification
9 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.32%) MCSA
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (46.05%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) Firmware
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (32.89%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Nessus
3 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.63%) SCCM
3 2 (2.63%) SCOM
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) SAP
2 26 (34.21%) HP
3 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) Adobe
4 3 (3.95%) Cisco
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) Siebel
4 3 (3.95%) Tealium
5 2 (2.63%) Juniper
5 2 (2.63%) Pega
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) VMware
6 1 (1.32%) Dell
6 1 (1.32%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.32%) McAfee
6 1 (1.32%) Meraki
6 1 (1.32%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.32%) OpenText
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat