Defect Management Jobs in the North West

Defect Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 282 281
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 10 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.049% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.060% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £46,149 £49,596 £51,750
25th Percentile £62,125 £51,240 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £56,067 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% -2.49% +27.78%
75th Percentile £73,886 £60,741 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £64,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £54,584 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.50% +9.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
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 the North West

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the North West

Defect Management
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +71 5 £71,991 +28.40% 3
Lancashire -66 3 £51,498 -11.16% 1
Merseyside +40 1 £67,500 +37.76%
Cumbria - 1 £38,500 -
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) NAS
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
1 5 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Military
4 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) Fintech
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (50.00%) Service Design
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
3 5 (50.00%) Google
3 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) SAP