Defect Tracking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 696 661
Rank change year-on-year +142 -35 +66
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 33 71 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 18 28 28
10th Percentile £49,000 £32,500 £31,650
25th Percentile £52,625 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -2.56% +28.13%
75th Percentile £58,250 £55,625 £61,875
90th Percentile £61,625 £63,750 £78,250
UK median annual salary £53,000 £43,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.14% -20.45% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,702 63,852 53,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.70% 81.13% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,877 43,309 28,442
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK excluding London

Defect Tracking
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 Tracking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
South West +73 14 £57,500 +21.05% 8
East of England +47 9 £53,000 - 6
South East +90 3 £57,500 +9.52% 15
Scotland +103 2 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +88 2 £44,500 +27.14% 4
North of England +57 2 £57,500 +53.33% 7
West Midlands +66 1 £44,500 -19.09% 2
East Midlands +52 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +51 1 £55,000 +57.14% 1
North West -1 1 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Defect Tracking
UK

Defect Tracking
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
1 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) 5G
1 12 (36.36%) SD-WAN
1 12 (36.36%) WAN
2 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.03%) LTE
3 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Selenium
2 9 (27.27%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.12%) Postman
3 4 (12.12%) SoapUI
3 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.03%) Appium
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Subversion
4 1 (3.03%) TestRail
General
1 10 (30.30%) Electronics
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Law
2 9 (27.27%) Legal
3 8 (24.24%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Marketing
5 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Senior
2 12 (36.36%) QA Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Senior QA Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) Lead
5 8 (24.24%) Project Leader
5 8 (24.24%) Senior Project Leader
5 8 (24.24%) Software Project Leader
5 8 (24.24%) Technical Leader
5 8 (24.24%) Technical Project Leader
6 5 (15.15%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) pytest
2 4 (12.12%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Self-Driving Car
2 8 (24.24%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (15.15%) GNSS
4 2 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.03%) FPGA
5 1 (3.03%) IoT
5 1 (3.03%) MicroBlaze
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (3.03%) Satnav
5 1 (3.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Android
2 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) Test Automation
2 20 (60.61%) Project Management
3 18 (54.55%) Agile
4 14 (42.42%) Validation
5 13 (39.39%) B2B
5 13 (39.39%) Computer Science
5 13 (39.39%) Requirements Analysis
5 13 (39.39%) Software Engineering
6 12 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (36.36%) Software Testing
6 12 (36.36%) Test Assurance
7 10 (30.30%) Manual Testing
7 10 (30.30%) SDLC
7 10 (30.30%) Test Scripting
7 10 (30.30%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (27.27%) Creative Thinking
8 9 (27.27%) Innovative Thinking
8 9 (27.27%) Process Improvement
8 9 (27.27%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) C
2 5 (15.15%) C++
2 5 (15.15%) Go
2 5 (15.15%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) PHP
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.03%) Perl
3 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.03%) Tcl
3 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.03%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (51.52%) QA
2 12 (36.36%) PMO
3 1 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Intel
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Altera
3 1 (3.03%) Cognos
3 1 (3.03%) Concur
3 1 (3.03%) Green Hills
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Xilinx