Defect Tracking Job Trends in Swansea

Defect Tracking
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 1.44% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 31 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.54% 75.61% 79.65%
Number of salaries quoted 164 25 120
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +19.46%
75th Percentile £72,813 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +5.88%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Swansea

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Defect Tracking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Defect Tracking

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in Swansea over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in Swansea

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Newman
2 3 (60.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (60.00%) TestRail
2 3 (60.00%) Zephyr
3 2 (40.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
2 3 (60.00%) Jest
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Resilience Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) WCAG
2 2 (40.00%) QA