Defect Tracking Jobs

Defect Tracking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 817 860
Rank change year-on-year +180 +43 +93
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 65 90 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.087% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40 47 55
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £61,563 £53,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £86,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% +5.56% +18.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -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 £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 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 +149 57 £53,000 +21.14% 38
UK excluding London +147 34 £53,000 +11.58% 30
Work from Home +128 32 £53,000 +51.43% 29
London +121 26 £52,500 +50.00% 18
South West +74 15 £57,500 +21.05% 4
East of England +57 9 £53,000 - 4
South East +79 3 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Scotland +123 2 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +64 2 £44,500 +27.14% 3
North of England +31 2 £57,500 +53.33% 6
West Midlands +56 1 £44,500 -19.09% 2
Yorkshire +53 1 £55,000 +57.14% 1
East Midlands +42 1 - - 1
North West -2 1 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Defect Tracking
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 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 5 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 4 (6.15%) GitHub
5 2 (3.08%) Azure
5 2 (3.08%) OCI
5 2 (3.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.54%) AWS
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.54%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.62%) 5G
1 16 (24.62%) SD-WAN
1 16 (24.62%) WAN
2 5 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.54%) LTE
3 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) Power BI
1 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (44.62%) JIRA
2 25 (38.46%) Selenium
3 8 (12.31%) Postman
3 8 (12.31%) Visual Studio
4 7 (10.77%) Cucumber
4 7 (10.77%) SoapUI
5 5 (7.69%) Git
6 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
6 4 (6.15%) JUnit
6 4 (6.15%) TestNG
7 3 (4.62%) JMeter
7 3 (4.62%) MSTest
8 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.08%) HP UFT
8 2 (3.08%) LoadRunner
8 2 (3.08%) TestRail
8 2 (3.08%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.54%) Maven
9 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Law
4 11 (16.92%) Electronics
5 10 (15.38%) Finance
6 9 (13.85%) Legal
6 9 (13.85%) Marketing
6 9 (13.85%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (12.31%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.54%) Banking
11 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Senior
2 18 (27.69%) Lead
3 16 (24.62%) QA Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior QA Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) C Software Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Project Leader
6 8 (12.31%) Senior Project Leader
6 8 (12.31%) Software Project Leader
6 8 (12.31%) Technical Leader
6 8 (12.31%) Technical Project Leader
7 7 (10.77%) Analyst
8 6 (9.23%) Lead Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Test Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Tester
9 5 (7.69%) CRM Developer
9 5 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) SOAP
2 8 (12.31%) pytest
3 7 (10.77%) REST
4 5 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (3.08%) JSON
6 1 (1.54%) CSS
6 1 (1.54%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.54%) HTML
6 1 (1.54%) JWT
6 1 (1.54%) Node.js
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.54%) Playwright
6 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Self-Driving Car
2 10 (15.38%) GNSS
3 8 (12.31%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.08%) FPGA
5 2 (3.08%) MicroBlaze
5 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.08%) Satnav
5 2 (3.08%) VHDL
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (72.31%) Test Automation
2 33 (50.77%) Agile
3 27 (41.54%) Project Management
4 24 (36.92%) Software Testing
5 21 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (32.31%) Validation
6 20 (30.77%) Manual Testing
6 20 (30.77%) SDLC
7 19 (29.23%) Computer Science
7 19 (29.23%) Test Scripting
8 18 (27.69%) B2B
8 18 (27.69%) Requirements Analysis
9 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
10 16 (24.62%) Mentoring
10 16 (24.62%) Test Assurance
11 14 (21.54%) Creative Thinking
11 14 (21.54%) Innovative Thinking
11 14 (21.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (16.92%) Test Management
13 10 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) SQL
2 17 (26.15%) Python
3 14 (21.54%) Java
4 12 (18.46%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.38%) C
5 10 (15.38%) C++
6 9 (13.85%) C#
7 8 (12.31%) Go
7 8 (12.31%) PHP
8 6 (9.23%) Perl
9 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
10 4 (6.15%) Bash
11 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
11 2 (3.08%) Tcl
11 2 (3.08%) VB
12 1 (1.54%) Scala
12 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (40.00%) Degree
2 16 (24.62%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.62%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (3.08%) ACCA
4 2 (3.08%) CIMA
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) ISEB
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (50.77%) QA
2 16 (24.62%) PMO
3 7 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (3.08%) GDPR
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.54%) MiFID
6 1 (1.54%) NCSC
6 1 (1.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (6.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
1 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.15%) Intel
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Altera
4 2 (3.08%) Green Hills
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) Xilinx
5 1 (1.54%) Cognos
5 1 (1.54%) Concur
5 1 (1.54%) Mercator
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk