Defect Tracking Job Trends in the Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 218 323
Rank change year-on-year -34 +105 -32
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 4 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.032% 0.040% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.044% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £36,500 - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% +27.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £46,250
90th Percentile £47,000 - £53,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +17.78% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,834 4,520 10,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.30% 89.35% 79.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,907 2,495 7,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Defect Tracking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
West Midlands -20 4 £45,000 +1.12% 1
Defect Tracking
England

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) TestRail
2 3 (75.00%) Toad
2 3 (75.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (25.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (75.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle