Defect Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Defect Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 265 272
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 -43
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 10 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.046% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.047% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £31,250 £52,875 £36,875
25th Percentile - £53,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £56,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +40.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,243 £58,438 £42,500
90th Percentile £62,070 £58,625 £51,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% -3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,032 6,376 6,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.12% 96.80% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,541 3,277 4,761
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the West Midlands

Defect Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Birmingham -3 7 £40,000 - 1
Staffordshire -15 2 £53,900 -2.00% 1
Shropshire -3 1 £60,500 +5.22%
Defect Management
England

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) TestNG
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Asset Management
4 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (40.00%) Investment Management
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Test Management
7 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (40.00%) InterSystems
1 4 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Denodo
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Talend