Defect Tracking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Defect Tracking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 440 570
Rank change year-on-year +126 +130 -81
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 31 30 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 15
10th Percentile £390 £410 £319
25th Percentile £419 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £360
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +25.00% -15.29%
75th Percentile £517 - £481
90th Percentile £606 - £515
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Defect Tracking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Defect Tracking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Defect Tracking.

Defect Tracking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Defect Tracking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Defect Tracking
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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) BlazeMeter
1 5 (16.13%) BrowserStack
1 5 (16.13%) Firebase
1 5 (16.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) JIRA
2 10 (32.26%) JMeter
3 7 (22.58%) Appium
3 7 (22.58%) Cypress.io
3 7 (22.58%) Postman
4 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
4 5 (16.13%) Selenium
5 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
5 4 (12.90%) Git
5 4 (12.90%) Subversion
6 2 (6.45%) Bugzilla
6 2 (6.45%) JUnit
6 2 (6.45%) TestNG
6 2 (6.45%) TestRail
6 2 (6.45%) UI Automator
6 2 (6.45%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Aerospace
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
5 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Tester
3 5 (16.13%) QA Tester
3 5 (16.13%) Test Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Test Manager
4 4 (12.90%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.45%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Middleware
1 5 (16.13%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (9.68%) Gherkin
2 3 (9.68%) Web Services
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.90%) Device Driver
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.68%) Life Science
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Android
1 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 20 (64.52%) Test Automation
3 14 (45.16%) Test Planning
3 14 (45.16%) Test Strategy
4 11 (35.48%) Test Management
5 10 (32.26%) Analytics
5 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (32.26%) Scrum
6 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
6 9 (29.03%) Validation
7 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (22.58%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Functional Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Manual Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Performance Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Java
2 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) Assembly Language
3 4 (12.90%) C
3 4 (12.90%) C++
3 4 (12.90%) MATLAB
3 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
1 5 (16.13%) ISTQB
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
2 4 (12.90%) PhD
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) JTAG
3 2 (6.45%) HL7
4 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (12.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Google
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle