Defect Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 535 672 566
Rank change year-on-year +137 -106 +84
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 36 93 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.15% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23 68 73
10th Percentile £44,200 £35,125 £28,250
25th Percentile £46,365 £39,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £71,318 £60,993 £54,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £70,750 £58,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Defect Management in the UK excluding London

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 28 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +27 16 £51,498 -11.16% 11
South East +81 10 £46,000 -17.86% 32
North West +6 10 £71,991 +28.40% 5
West Midlands +56 6 £55,000 +37.50% 10
Midlands +47 6 £55,000 +23.60% 12
Yorkshire +46 6 £48,507 -30.70% 2
Scotland +124 2 £85,253 - 11
South West +110 2 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) DHCP
1 5 (13.89%) DNS
1 5 (13.89%) NAS
1 5 (13.89%) SAN
1 5 (13.89%) VSAN
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (61.11%) JIRA
2 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (19.44%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.78%) ESLint
6 1 (2.78%) Gatling
6 1 (2.78%) Git
6 1 (2.78%) JMeter
6 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (36.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) SCADA Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Test Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Tester
7 1 (2.78%) SAP Manager
7 1 (2.78%) SAP Test Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) Middleware
2 3 (8.33%) SOAP
2 3 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) J2EE
3 2 (5.56%) Java EE
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) HTML
4 1 (2.78%) Jest
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
4 1 (2.78%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.89%) SCADA
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.78%) CCTV
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Scrum
3 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
4 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Test Management
5 9 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 7 (19.44%) System Integration Testing
6 7 (19.44%) Waterfall
7 6 (16.67%) Agile Testing
7 6 (16.67%) BDD
7 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 6 (16.67%) User Stories
8 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) C++
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Terminal Server
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) HP ALM
1 5 (13.89%) Progress Chef
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) SCCM
2 2 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) VMware
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) HP
3 5 (13.89%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Juniper
5 1 (2.78%) McAfee
5 1 (2.78%) SAP