Defect Management Jobs in Lancashire

Defect Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 89 76
Rank change year-on-year -63 -13 +19
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.13% 0.074% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.095% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49,749 £55,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,498 £57,965 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +15.93% +42.86%
75th Percentile £53,246 £60,741 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £71,991 £56,067 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.40% -2.49% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,270 1,055 661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.23% 78.50% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 880 367
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,636
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £70,600
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Lancashire

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Defect Management in Lancashire

Defect Management
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Blackpool - 2 - -
Blackburn - 1 £51,498 -
Defect Management
North West

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Military
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Contract Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP