Defect Management Jobs

Defect Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 793 671
Rank change year-on-year +146 -122 +207
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 62 119 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 40 92 126
10th Percentile £44,900 £37,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £47,231 £44,559 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +8.06%
75th Percentile £73,886 £64,963 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,128 £72,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +109 60 £62,500 +13.64% 128
UK excluding London +137 36 £50,000 -9.09% 131
London +115 26 £65,000 +13.04% 14
Work from Home +86 26 £67,500 +22.73% 20
North of England +38 16 £51,498 -11.16% 24
South East +80 10 £46,000 -17.86% 39
North West +14 10 £71,991 +28.40% 12
Midlands +73 6 £55,000 +23.60% 27
West Midlands +50 6 £55,000 +37.50% 18
Yorkshire +44 6 £48,507 -30.70% 7
Scotland +117 2 £85,253 - 5
South West +97 2 £50,000 -9.09% 18

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.29%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.65%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (14.52%) Power Platform
3 8 (12.90%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) AWS
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.23%) OCI
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
7 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) SAN
2 5 (8.06%) DHCP
2 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 5 (8.06%) NAS
2 5 (8.06%) VSAN
3 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.68%) Power BI
4 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (53.23%) JIRA
2 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.13%) JMeter
2 10 (16.13%) Selenium
3 9 (14.52%) Cypress.io
4 7 (11.29%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (11.29%) Postman
5 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
5 6 (9.68%) SoapUI
6 4 (6.45%) JUnit
6 4 (6.45%) SpecFlow
6 4 (6.45%) TestRail
7 3 (4.84%) Gatling
7 3 (4.84%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.84%) Mocha
7 3 (4.84%) MSTest
7 3 (4.84%) NUnit
8 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
8 2 (3.23%) ESLint
8 2 (3.23%) Git
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 25 (40.32%) Finance
3 17 (27.42%) Banking
4 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Law
6 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Military
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Test Engineer
2 7 (11.29%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Lead
3 6 (9.68%) QA Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Quality Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Test Manager
3 6 (9.68%) Tester
4 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) SCADA Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Test Leader
6 3 (4.84%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.84%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) IT Business Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Professional Services Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Middleware
2 5 (8.06%) Jest
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.45%) CSS
3 4 (6.45%) HTML
3 4 (6.45%) Node.js
4 3 (4.84%) Playwright
4 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 3 (4.84%) SOAP
4 3 (4.84%) Swagger
4 3 (4.84%) Web Services
4 3 (4.84%) WebdriverIO
4 3 (4.84%) XML
5 2 (3.23%) J2EE
5 2 (3.23%) Java EE
6 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) Prisma
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.68%) SCADA
3 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.61%) CCTV
6 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (64.52%) Agile
2 29 (46.77%) Test Automation
3 22 (35.48%) Scrum
4 21 (33.87%) Test Strategy
5 19 (30.65%) DevOps
5 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (30.65%) Test Management
6 17 (27.42%) Test Scripting
7 14 (22.58%) Manual Testing
7 14 (22.58%) Software Testing
7 14 (22.58%) Test Planning
7 14 (22.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (17.74%) User Stories
10 10 (16.13%) Agile Testing
10 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
10 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.13%) Security Testing
11 9 (14.52%) Waterfall
12 8 (12.90%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) SQL
2 10 (16.13%) Java
3 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.06%) Python
5 4 (6.45%) C#
6 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) ISTQB
1 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) Degree
3 9 (14.52%) Azure Certification
3 9 (14.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (4.84%) CISSP
8 3 (4.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (3.23%) ACCA
9 2 (3.23%) CIMA
9 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.61%) Dell Certification
10 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.61%) MCSA
10 1 (1.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) MiFID
4 1 (1.61%) PSD2
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) VMware NSX
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) HP ALM
2 5 (8.06%) Progress Chef
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (3.23%) SCCM
4 2 (3.23%) SCOM
5 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Oracle
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) HP
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.68%) Google
4 6 (9.68%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
6 2 (3.23%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.61%) Civica
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.61%) McAfee
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Splunk