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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 534 529
Rank change year-on-year +97 -5 +234
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 30 54 93
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 24 45 61
10th Percentile £40,600 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £39,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,810 £72,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +4.17%

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 18,531 31,547 34,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.64% 89.18% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,723 23,483 25,124
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,240 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 24 June 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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DHCP
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) NAS
1 5 (16.67%) SAN
1 5 (16.67%) VSAN
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (23.33%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.00%) Selenium
6 2 (6.67%) JMeter
7 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.33%) Gatling
7 1 (3.33%) JUnit
7 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.33%) Locust
7 1 (3.33%) Postman
7 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) TestRail
General
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) Banking
3 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Law
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
1 6 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Test Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Professional Services Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (6.67%) J2EE
2 2 (6.67%) Java EE
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) RFC 2544
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
3 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Test Automation
3 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Scrum
4 10 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 7 (23.33%) Agile Testing
6 7 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (20.00%) BDD
7 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (20.00%) Project Management
7 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 5 (16.67%) Architectural Design
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Regression Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Google
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk