Defect Tracking Job Trends in Wales

Defect Tracking
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Defect Tracking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 5 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.21% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £28,900
25th Percentile £32,000 - £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £31,000
75th Percentile £48,750 - £31,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +17.78% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,514 584 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.32% 83.91% 69.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 419 1,072
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,232 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,669 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £66,300 £65,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defect Tracking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Defect Tracking job vacancy trend in Wales

Defect Tracking
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Defect Tracking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Defect Tracking

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in Wales over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
West Wales - 5 £47,500 - 1
Defect Tracking
UK

Defect Tracking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Newman
2 3 (60.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (60.00%) TestRail
2 3 (60.00%) Zephyr
3 2 (40.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
2 3 (60.00%) Jest
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Resilience Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) WCAG
2 2 (40.00%) QA