Defect Management Jobs in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 178 239 220
Rank change year-on-year +61 -19 +40
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 2 7 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.060% 0.10% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.12% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 13
10th Percentile - £39,825 £32,500
25th Percentile - £39,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £44,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile - £53,125 £43,000
90th Percentile - £61,000 £47,150
South East median annual salary £46,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,137 5,808 5,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.73% 83.86% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,153 3,909 3,043
10th Percentile £27,600 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
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 £86,160 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the Thames Valley

Defect Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +39 1 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +31 1 - - 2
Defect Management
South East

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Escalation Management
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco