Defect Management Jobs in London

Defect Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 367 482 541
Rank change year-on-year +115 +59 +266
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 26 25 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 46
10th Percentile £49,250 £46,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,875 £67,813
90th Percentile £101,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Defect Management in London

Defect Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the London 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
Central London +24 2 £72,500 -7.05% 1
West London - 1 - - 2
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) SAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) JIRA
2 10 (38.46%) Selenium
3 9 (34.62%) JMeter
4 8 (30.77%) Cypress.io
5 7 (26.92%) Postman
6 4 (15.38%) JUnit
6 4 (15.38%) SpecFlow
6 4 (15.38%) TestRail
7 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
7 3 (11.54%) Mocha
7 3 (11.54%) MSTest
7 3 (11.54%) NUnit
7 3 (11.54%) SoapUI
8 2 (7.69%) Gatling
9 1 (3.85%) Bugzilla
9 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
9 1 (3.85%) ESLint
9 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
9 1 (3.85%) Locust
9 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Law
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) QA Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Test Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Tester
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) QA Leader
3 3 (11.54%) Senior QA Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 2 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials Functional Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Professional Services Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Jest
2 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) Playwright
2 3 (11.54%) Swagger
2 3 (11.54%) Web Services
2 3 (11.54%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) Prisma
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 13 (50.00%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) Test Strategy
4 11 (42.31%) Test Planning
4 11 (42.31%) Test Scripting
5 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
6 9 (34.62%) DevOps
6 9 (34.62%) Manual Testing
6 9 (34.62%) Scrum
6 9 (34.62%) Test Management
7 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (30.77%) Security Testing
7 8 (30.77%) Software Testing
8 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
8 6 (23.08%) Kanban
8 6 (23.08%) Performance Testing
8 6 (23.08%) SDLC
9 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) ISTQB
2 8 (30.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (26.92%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (11.54%) CISSP
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (7.69%) ACCA
6 2 (7.69%) CIMA
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Dell Certification
7 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.85%) MCSA
7 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) MiFID
3 1 (3.85%) PSD2
3 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) HP
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Civica
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) Fujitsu
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk