Defect Management Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Defect Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 526 532
Rank change year-on-year +121 +6 +181
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 27 57 130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 21 47 94
10th Percentile - £38,850 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £47,375 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +11.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,361 31,014 40,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.62% 91.60% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,557 28,305
10th Percentile £29,913 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Defect Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Defect Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Defect Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Defect Management.

Defect Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Defect Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DHCP
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) NAS
1 5 (18.52%) SAN
1 5 (18.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) JIRA
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (25.93%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 5 (18.52%) Selenium
6 2 (7.41%) Git
6 2 (7.41%) JMeter
6 2 (7.41%) JUnit
6 2 (7.41%) Postman
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) Gatling
7 1 (3.70%) Gradle
7 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.70%) Locust
7 1 (3.70%) Maven
7 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.70%) Spinnaker
7 1 (3.70%) TestNG
7 1 (3.70%) TestRail
7 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (70.37%) Finance
2 16 (59.26%) Banking
3 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Law
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Military
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Quality Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Professional Services Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Head of QA
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Middleware
2 2 (7.41%) J2EE
2 2 (7.41%) Java EE
3 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
2 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) Test Automation
3 11 (40.74%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 8 (29.63%) Test Strategy
6 7 (25.93%) Agile Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (22.22%) BDD
7 6 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
8 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (18.52%) Fintech
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 5 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (18.52%) Service Design
8 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Basel III
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.70%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Google
3 5 (18.52%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk