Defect Tracking Jobs in the Midlands

Defect Tracking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 258 317 306
Rank change year-on-year +59 -11 +35
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 2 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.029% 0.024% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.029% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - £23,375
25th Percentile £44,250 - £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £41,250
90th Percentile - £53,000 £41,625
England median annual salary £53,000 £43,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year +21.14% -14.63% -2.38%

All Process and 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 6,241 10,209 8,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.62% 80.46% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,459 7,378 4,406
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,238 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in the Midlands

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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 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
West Midlands +56 1 £44,500 -19.09% 2
East Midlands +33 1 - - 1
Defect Tracking
England

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CAD
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP