Defect Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 796 636 885
Rank change year-on-year -160 +249 -155
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 114 369 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.37% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 86 166 194
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.01% -9.92%
75th Percentile £69,063 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £74,686
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +20.48% -2.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Defect Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 16 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 6 May 2024. 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 -88 105 £55,000 +10.00% 23
UK excluding London -161 87 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Work from Home +6 57 £55,000 +10.00% 9
North of England +36 29 £57,965 +15.93% 1
London +71 26 £56,250 +12.50% 9
Yorkshire +92 21 £70,000 +40.00%
South East -66 18 £56,000 +12.00% 3
Midlands +20 16 £49,329 -12.30% 1
West Midlands +34 11 £40,000 -28.89% 1
South West -32 10 £55,000 +13.99% 5
East of England -23 6 £40,000 - 3
Wales - 6 £70,000 - 1
North West +8 5 £56,067 -5.81% 1
East Midlands -16 5 £49,329 -
North East -12 3 £48,232 +75.39%
Scotland -88 2 - - 4

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 2 (1.75%) CMS
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.88%) Drupal
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
2 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.42%) Azure
2 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.40%) SaaS
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (3.51%) dbt
4 4 (3.51%) GCP
4 4 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (3.51%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.75%) AWS
6 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.75%) GitHub
6 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.75%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.39%) Tableau
4 4 (3.51%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (35.09%) JIRA
2 28 (24.56%) Selenium
3 16 (14.04%) JMeter
4 13 (11.40%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.77%) LoadRunner
6 9 (7.89%) SoapUI
6 9 (7.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (7.89%) Zephyr
7 8 (7.02%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.02%) Visual Studio
8 7 (6.14%) Postman
9 6 (5.26%) TestRail
10 5 (4.39%) Git
10 5 (4.39%) HP UFT
10 5 (4.39%) MSTest
11 4 (3.51%) Appium
11 4 (3.51%) JUnit
11 4 (3.51%) TestNG
12 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
12 3 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 47 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Law
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Retail
8 5 (4.39%) Games
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
9 4 (3.51%) Local Government
9 4 (3.51%) Marketing
9 4 (3.51%) Police
10 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Electronics
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
11 1 (0.88%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 25 (21.93%) Analyst
2 24 (21.05%) Senior
3 20 (17.54%) Lead
3 20 (17.54%) Test Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) Test Analyst
4 15 (13.16%) Test Manager
5 11 (9.65%) QA Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Test Leader
7 8 (7.02%) Developer
7 8 (7.02%) QA Leader
7 8 (7.02%) Quality Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Tester
9 5 (4.39%) Automation Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) QA Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) QA Automation Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) SaaS Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Automation Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) Gherkin
2 9 (7.89%) Web Services
3 6 (5.26%) .NET
4 5 (4.39%) HTML
5 4 (3.51%) RESTful
5 4 (3.51%) XML
6 3 (2.63%) ADO
6 3 (2.63%) JSON
6 3 (2.63%) REST
6 3 (2.63%) SOAP
6 3 (2.63%) WireMock
7 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.75%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.75%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.75%) Celery
7 2 (1.75%) Kafka
7 2 (1.75%) XSD
7 2 (1.75%) XSLT
8 1 (0.88%) CSS
8 1 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (7.89%) Low-Code
2 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) PMI
6 1 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (63.16%) Test Automation
2 68 (59.65%) Agile
3 46 (40.35%) Software Testing
4 43 (37.72%) User Acceptance Testing
5 36 (31.58%) Test Scripting
6 34 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (27.19%) Scrum
7 31 (27.19%) Test Strategy
8 27 (23.68%) Test Management
9 26 (22.81%) Functional Testing
9 26 (22.81%) Regression Testing
10 25 (21.93%) DevOps
10 25 (21.93%) Mentoring
11 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
12 22 (19.30%) Performance Testing
13 19 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
14 17 (14.91%) Coaching
14 17 (14.91%) Project Delivery
15 16 (14.04%) Non-Functional Testing
15 16 (14.04%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.56%) SQL
2 14 (12.28%) Python
3 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.89%) T-SQL
5 8 (7.02%) C#
6 7 (6.14%) Java
7 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.75%) C++
8 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.75%) XPath
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) ISTQB
2 29 (25.44%) Degree
3 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.26%) ISEB
6 5 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.82%) QA
2 12 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Firmware
2 3 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Ansible
1 2 (1.75%) Consul
1 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.88%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) MuleSoft
2 7 (6.14%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) OutSystems
4 4 (3.51%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.51%) InterSystems
4 4 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 3 (2.63%) iManage
5 3 (2.63%) Intapp
6 2 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Aderant
7 1 (0.88%) Denodo
7 1 (0.88%) HP
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.88%) Talend