Defect Management Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Defect Management
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Defect Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.28% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £57,965
75th Percentile £51,250 - £60,741
90th Percentile £52,750 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 - £57,965

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 789 285 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 74.22% 91.94% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 628 216 743
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,599 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Defect Management
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared