Defect Tracking Jobs in England

Defect Tracking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 764 803
Rank change year-on-year +136 +39 +106
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 57 79 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 38 36 50
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,625 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.14% -14.63% -2.38%
75th Percentile £62,188 £51,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £92,875
UK median annual salary £53,000 £42,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +24.71% -20.93% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in England

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in England.

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in England

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in England

Defect Tracking
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 Tracking within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London +130 26 £52,500 +50.00% 14
South West +67 15 £57,500 +21.05% 2
East of England +54 9 £53,000 -
South East +89 3 £57,500 +9.52% 13
Midlands +85 2 £44,500 +27.14% 1
North of England +45 2 £57,500 +53.33% 1
West Midlands +58 1 £44,500 -19.09% 1
Yorkshire +57 1 £55,000 +57.14%
East Midlands +45 1 - -
North West +5 1 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Defect Tracking
UK

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.77%) Confluence
1 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
2 5 (8.77%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.51%) Azure
3 2 (3.51%) OCI
4 1 (1.75%) AWS
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) 5G
1 12 (21.05%) SD-WAN
1 12 (21.05%) WAN
2 5 (8.77%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.75%) LTE
3 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.53%) Power BI
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (49.12%) JIRA
2 25 (43.86%) Selenium
3 8 (14.04%) Postman
4 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
4 7 (12.28%) SoapUI
5 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.02%) JUnit
5 4 (7.02%) TestNG
5 4 (7.02%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.26%) JMeter
6 3 (5.26%) MSTest
7 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.51%) HP UFT
7 2 (3.51%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.51%) TestRail
7 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.75%) Appium
8 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.75%) RSpec
8 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Law
4 11 (19.30%) Electronics
5 9 (15.79%) Legal
5 9 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (14.04%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (12.28%) Finance
8 5 (8.77%) Marketing
9 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.75%) Banking
11 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Senior
2 18 (31.58%) Lead
3 15 (26.32%) QA Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior QA Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Project Leader
5 8 (14.04%) Senior Project Leader
5 8 (14.04%) Software Project Leader
5 8 (14.04%) Technical Leader
5 8 (14.04%) Technical Project Leader
6 6 (10.53%) Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Tester
7 5 (8.77%) CRM Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Test Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) SOAP
2 8 (14.04%) pytest
3 7 (12.28%) REST
4 5 (8.77%) Web Services
5 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 1 (1.75%) CSS
6 1 (1.75%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.75%) HTML
6 1 (1.75%) JWT
6 1 (1.75%) Node.js
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.75%) Playwright
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Self-Driving Car
2 8 (14.04%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.53%) GNSS
4 5 (8.77%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.51%) FPGA
5 2 (3.51%) MicroBlaze
5 2 (3.51%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.51%) Satnav
5 2 (3.51%) VHDL
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (73.68%) Test Automation
2 31 (54.39%) Agile
3 22 (38.60%) Software Testing
4 21 (36.84%) Project Management
5 20 (35.09%) Manual Testing
6 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (29.82%) Test Scripting
7 17 (29.82%) Validation
8 16 (28.07%) Mentoring
9 15 (26.32%) Computer Science
9 15 (26.32%) SDLC
10 14 (24.56%) B2B
10 14 (24.56%) Requirements Analysis
11 13 (22.81%) Software Engineering
11 13 (22.81%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (21.05%) Test Assurance
13 10 (17.54%) Creative Thinking
13 10 (17.54%) Innovative Thinking
13 10 (17.54%) Process Improvement
13 10 (17.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Java
3 13 (22.81%) Python
4 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.79%) C#
6 8 (14.04%) Go
6 8 (14.04%) PHP
7 6 (10.53%) C
7 6 (10.53%) C++
8 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.51%) MATLAB
9 2 (3.51%) Perl
9 2 (3.51%) Tcl
9 2 (3.51%) VB
10 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Degree
2 16 (28.07%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.26%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (3.51%) ACCA
4 2 (3.51%) CIMA
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) ISEB
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (54.39%) QA
2 12 (21.05%) PMO
3 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (7.02%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (3.51%) GDPR
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.75%) MiFID
6 1 (1.75%) NCSC
6 1 (1.75%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (7.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
1 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.02%) Intel
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Altera
4 2 (3.51%) Green Hills
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
4 2 (3.51%) Xilinx
5 1 (1.75%) Cognos
5 1 (1.75%) Concur
5 1 (1.75%) Mercator
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk