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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 598 643
Rank change year-on-year +45 +45 -73
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 75 57 107
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 33 36 75
10th Percentile £42,625 £46,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £61,250 £46,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,246 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +27.72% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £84,688 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £91,875 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,246 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.59% +27.72% +10.00%

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 46,489 41,225 58,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.81% 92.12% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,280 20,343 45,933
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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
London +41 33 £57,500 -23.84% 12
South East +40 30 £49,375 -21.00% 13
South West -10 6 £65,000 -25.71% 4
East of England +12 1 £45,000 +20.00% 2
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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (38.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (8.00%) SAP CO
2 6 (8.00%) SAP FI
2 6 (8.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
2 23 (30.67%) Azure
3 14 (18.67%) AWS
4 10 (13.33%) BrowserStack
5 8 (10.67%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (4.00%) Datadog
8 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.33%) FTP
1 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.33%) SNMP
1 1 (1.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (1.33%) SSH
1 1 (1.33%) TACACS
1 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.33%) WAN
1 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 39 (52.00%) JIRA
2 22 (29.33%) eCATT
3 14 (18.67%) Selenium
4 7 (9.33%) Postman
5 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.67%) Git
6 5 (6.67%) TestNG
7 4 (5.33%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.33%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.33%) WebDriver
7 4 (5.33%) Zephyr
8 3 (4.00%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (4.00%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (4.00%) Fiddler
8 3 (4.00%) GitLab
8 3 (4.00%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (4.00%) NUnit
8 3 (4.00%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 28 (37.33%) Finance
2 23 (30.67%) Manufacturing
2 23 (30.67%) Marketing
3 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 19 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (25.33%) Influencing Skills
4 19 (25.33%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Electronics
6 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.00%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) Lead
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Quality Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Development Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Software Development Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Test Development Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) SAP CO Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) SAP FI Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Test Leader
6 6 (8.00%) Test Manager
7 5 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) SAP PS Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (5.33%) Playwright
2 4 (5.33%) XML
3 3 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.33%) React
5 1 (1.33%) SOAP
5 1 (1.33%) Spring
5 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) W3C
3 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 37 (49.33%) Test Management
2 31 (41.33%) Test Automation
3 29 (38.67%) Agile
4 27 (36.00%) Software Testing
5 26 (34.67%) CI/CD
5 26 (34.67%) Risk Management
6 22 (29.33%) ERP
6 22 (29.33%) Source to Pay
7 21 (28.00%) Manual Testing
8 19 (25.33%) Visualisation
9 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (22.67%) DevOps
10 17 (22.67%) Non-Functional Testing
10 17 (22.67%) Test Strategy
11 14 (18.67%) Integration Testing
11 14 (18.67%) SDLC
12 13 (17.33%) Performance Testing
12 13 (17.33%) System Integration Testing
12 13 (17.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
1 11 (14.67%) Python
2 9 (12.00%) Java
2 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 6 (8.00%) ABAP
4 6 (8.00%) C#
5 3 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) Go
6 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) ISTQB
2 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.33%) Degree
4 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) SAP Certification
6 4 (5.33%) ISEB
6 4 (5.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (50.67%) QA
2 8 (10.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 2 (2.67%) Nessus
3 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) SCCM
4 1 (1.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (41.33%) SAP
2 25 (33.33%) HP
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.33%) Siebel
4 3 (4.00%) Adobe
4 3 (4.00%) Pega
4 3 (4.00%) Tealium
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco
5 1 (1.33%) Meraki
5 1 (1.33%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.33%) OpenText
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) VMware