Defect Tracking Contracts in England

Defect Tracking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 601 709
Rank change year-on-year +108 +108 -103
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 50 37 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.078% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.087% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 24 39
10th Percentile £390 £331 £346
25th Percentile £425 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -5.49%
75th Percentile £517 £503 £469
90th Percentile £606 £513 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Defect Tracking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,786 42,433 64,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.49% 89.93% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,761 45,992
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,531 1,717
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in England.

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Defect Tracking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +81 21 £468 +12.65%
South East +15 12 £395 -5.95% 2
North of England +28 8 £517 +1.67% 1
Yorkshire +21 7 £517 +0.83% 1
Midlands +20 4 £525 +5.00% 3
West Midlands +11 4 £525 +5.00% 2
North West +16 1 - -
East of England +6 1 £440 +35.38% 2
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Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (18.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Firebase
2 8 (16.00%) BlazeMeter
2 8 (16.00%) BrowserStack
2 8 (16.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) GCP
3 2 (4.00%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (2.00%) Boomi
4 1 (2.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) JIRA
2 13 (26.00%) JMeter
3 12 (24.00%) Cypress.io
3 12 (24.00%) Postman
4 11 (22.00%) Appium
5 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 9 (18.00%) GitLab
7 6 (12.00%) Git
8 5 (10.00%) Selenium
9 4 (8.00%) Subversion
10 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
11 2 (4.00%) Bugzilla
11 2 (4.00%) ClearCase
11 2 (4.00%) ClearQuest
11 2 (4.00%) JUnit
11 2 (4.00%) TestNG
11 2 (4.00%) TestRail
12 1 (2.00%) Gerrit
12 1 (2.00%) UI Automator
12 1 (2.00%) XCUITest
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) Test Analyst
3 9 (18.00%) Tester
4 7 (14.00%) QA Tester
4 7 (14.00%) Test Manager
5 5 (10.00%) QA Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) ABAP Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.00%) Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Business Test Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) Middleware
1 9 (18.00%) WebdriverIO
2 8 (16.00%) Web Services
3 3 (6.00%) BAPI
3 3 (6.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.00%) CSS
4 2 (4.00%) HTML
4 2 (4.00%) JSON
4 2 (4.00%) XML
5 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Life Science
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Device Driver
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Agile
2 28 (56.00%) Test Automation
3 21 (42.00%) Test Planning
4 19 (38.00%) Test Management
5 18 (36.00%) Test Strategy
6 16 (32.00%) Scrum
6 16 (32.00%) Software Testing
7 15 (30.00%) Computer Science
7 15 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
9 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
10 12 (24.00%) Validation
11 11 (22.00%) Analytics
12 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (20.00%) Performance Testing
12 10 (20.00%) Test Scripting
13 8 (16.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
13 8 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
14 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) Java
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) Assembly Language
4 4 (8.00%) C
4 4 (8.00%) C++
4 4 (8.00%) MATLAB
4 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.00%) ABAP
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) ISTQB
3 7 (14.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.00%) PhD
5 1 (2.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (44.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) HL7
2 4 (8.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (8.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce