Defect Tracking Contracts

Defect Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 653 753
Rank change year-on-year +135 +100 -115
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 61 48 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.084% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.094% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 42
10th Percentile £387 £351 £328
25th Percentile £423 £418 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -1.02%
75th Percentile £517 £475 £484
90th Percentile £608 £495 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £395
% change year-on-year +2.78% +14.07% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £31.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 51 £471 +4.72% 10
UK excluding London +74 35 £463 +2.78% 8
Work from Home +124 31 £468 +3.89% 4
London +94 20 £468 -5.32% 2
South East +24 12 £395 -5.95% 1
Scotland +50 9 £475 +2.70% 1
North of England +33 8 £517 +13.94% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £517 - 1
Midlands +33 5 £450 -10.00% 3
West Midlands +28 5 £450 -10.00% 3
North West +17 1 - -
East of England +10 1 £440 +35.38% 2

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.28%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Firebase
2 8 (13.11%) BlazeMeter
2 8 (13.11%) BrowserStack
2 8 (13.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
4 3 (4.92%) OCI
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.64%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
1 4 (6.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.28%) MariaDB
1 2 (3.28%) MySQL
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) JIRA
2 13 (21.31%) JMeter
3 12 (19.67%) Appium
3 12 (19.67%) Cypress.io
3 12 (19.67%) Postman
4 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
5 9 (14.75%) GitLab
6 7 (11.48%) Selenium
7 6 (9.84%) Git
8 5 (8.20%) Cucumber
9 4 (6.56%) Subversion
10 2 (3.28%) Bugzilla
10 2 (3.28%) ClearCase
10 2 (3.28%) ClearQuest
10 2 (3.28%) JUnit
10 2 (3.28%) TestNG
10 2 (3.28%) TestRail
10 2 (3.28%) UI Automator
10 2 (3.28%) XCUITest
11 1 (1.64%) Gerrit
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Finance
4 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.56%) Electronics
6 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.28%) Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Test Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Tester
3 9 (14.75%) Test Manager
4 8 (13.11%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) QA Tester
6 5 (8.20%) QA Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) QA Test Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) ABAP Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.92%) Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Manual Tester
8 3 (4.92%) Oracle Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) Middleware
1 9 (14.75%) WebdriverIO
2 8 (13.11%) Web Services
3 3 (4.92%) BAPI
3 3 (4.92%) Gherkin
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.28%) CSS
4 2 (3.28%) HTML
4 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 2 (3.28%) XML
5 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Device Driver
2 5 (8.20%) Life Science
3 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.56%) IoT
3 4 (6.56%) PCIe
3 4 (6.56%) Verilog
3 4 (6.56%) VHDL
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (6.56%) VxWorks
3 2 (3.28%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) Agile
2 32 (52.46%) Test Automation
3 22 (36.07%) Test Planning
3 22 (36.07%) Test Strategy
4 19 (31.15%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (31.15%) Test Management
5 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
6 17 (27.87%) Software Engineering
7 16 (26.23%) Scrum
7 16 (26.23%) Software Testing
8 15 (24.59%) Computer Science
8 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (19.67%) Validation
10 11 (18.03%) Analytics
10 11 (18.03%) Performance Testing
10 11 (18.03%) Test Scripting
11 10 (16.39%) Scenario Testing
12 8 (13.11%) Cross-Browser Testing
12 8 (13.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.11%) C
2 8 (13.11%) Python
3 7 (11.48%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) SQL
5 4 (6.56%) Assembly Language
5 4 (6.56%) C++
5 4 (6.56%) Embedded C
5 4 (6.56%) MATLAB
5 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.92%) ABAP
7 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.28%) Swift
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Degree
2 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.11%) ISTQB
5 7 (11.48%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.56%) PhD
7 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (37.70%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) HL7
2 4 (6.56%) JTAG
2 4 (6.56%) MISRA
2 4 (6.56%) MISRA C
3 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Firmware
2 4 (6.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.64%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
1 6 (9.84%) Oracle
2 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.56%) Intel
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) HP
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce