Defect Management Jobs in the South East

Defect Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 297 378 312
Rank change year-on-year +81 -66 +105
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 10 19 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.11% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 38
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £35,725
25th Percentile £44,500 £39,938 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55,375 - £54,000
90th Percentile £65,750 £59,875 £57,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £54,584 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.50% +9.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the South East.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the South East

Defect Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the South East 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
Hampshire +70 7 £46,000 +22.67% 10
Thames Valley +61 2 - - 7
Surrey +52 1 £39,000 -37.60%
Berkshire +39 1 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +31 1 - - 2
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) ESLint
3 1 (10.00%) Gatling
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (50.00%) V-Model
3 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Vision
6 2 (20.00%) Image Processing
6 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Kanban
7 1 (10.00%) OWASP
7 1 (10.00%) TDD
7 1 (10.00%) Test Management
7 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) McAfee