Defect Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Defect Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 541 518
Rank change year-on-year +68 -23 -29
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 44 27 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.074% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.083% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 35
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,925 £36,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,169 £44,562
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £48,750 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -12.95% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,938 £64,120
90th Percentile £79,500 £86,375 £72,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +21.43% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,374 32,384 29,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.73% 88.57% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,133 14,703 21,772
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,407
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defect Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Defect Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Defect Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Defect Management

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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
South East - 32 £46,000 - 18
South West +9 6 £65,000 -25.71% 8
East of England +23 3 £75,000 +100.00% 7
North of England +9 3 £35,000 +0.74% 9
North East - 3 £35,000 -
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.55%) OCI
4 1 (2.27%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.82%) Internet
2 3 (6.82%) LAN
2 3 (6.82%) SAN
2 3 (6.82%) SSL
2 3 (6.82%) VoIP
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (63.64%) JIRA
2 22 (50.00%) eCATT
3 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.36%) Selenium
5 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.82%) GitLab
6 2 (4.55%) Postman
6 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.55%) Robot Framework
6 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
6 2 (4.55%) TestRail
7 1 (2.27%) Git
7 1 (2.27%) Subversion
7 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (54.55%) Finance
2 22 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 22 (50.00%) Marketing
3 19 (43.18%) Influencing Skills
3 19 (43.18%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (4.55%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Advertising
7 1 (2.27%) Electronics
7 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Test Specialist
5 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Support
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Tester
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Test Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.55%) Playwright
2 2 (4.55%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) SOAP
2 2 (4.55%) XML
3 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Clustering
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
1 5 (11.36%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Test Management
2 22 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 22 (50.00%) Source to Pay
3 21 (47.73%) ERP
4 19 (43.18%) Visualisation
5 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (18.18%) Agile
6 8 (18.18%) Software Testing
7 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.64%) DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (13.64%) Manual Testing
9 5 (11.36%) Test Scripting
9 5 (11.36%) Validation
10 4 (9.09%) API Testing
10 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.09%) Release Management
10 4 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 4 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.55%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) C#
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Go
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (54.55%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
3 1 (2.27%) Terminal Server
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) HP ALM
2 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) Grafana
3 2 (4.55%) Nessus
3 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) SCCM
3 2 (4.55%) SCOM
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) HP
1 22 (50.00%) SAP
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) VMware
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) Juniper
4 1 (2.27%) McAfee