Defect Management Jobs in England

Defect Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Defect Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 654 801
Rank change year-on-year -101 +147 -90
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 110 250 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 86 115 156
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,563 £42,375 £38,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,584 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £62,313 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,250 £74,686
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,041
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.01% -9.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in England.

Salary trend for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in England

Defect Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +31 30 £57,965 +28.81% 4
London +73 25 £57,500 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire +73 22 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Midlands -6 20 £42,250 -24.89% 4
South East -67 18 £56,000 +12.00% 4
West Midlands -4 15 £40,000 -28.89% 4
South West -23 10 £55,000 +18.28% 3
East of England -35 7 £40,000 - 2
North West -11 5 £56,067 -2.49%
East Midlands -21 5 £49,329 -
North East -15 3 £48,232 +75.39% 1
Defect Management
UK

Defect Management
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 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.91%) Apache
2 1 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) Drupal
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
1 11 (10.00%) SaaS
2 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.64%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (3.64%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (3.64%) dbt
3 4 (3.64%) GCP
3 4 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.91%) AWS
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.91%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) Tableau
4 4 (3.64%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Power BI
5 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (33.64%) JIRA
2 27 (24.55%) Selenium
3 12 (10.91%) Cucumber
4 10 (9.09%) LoadRunner
5 9 (8.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 9 (8.18%) Zephyr
6 8 (7.27%) JMeter
6 8 (7.27%) TeamCity
7 7 (6.36%) TestRail
8 5 (4.55%) HP UFT
8 5 (4.55%) MSTest
9 4 (3.64%) JUnit
9 4 (3.64%) TestNG
10 3 (2.73%) Appium
10 3 (2.73%) Git
10 3 (2.73%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
11 2 (1.82%) NeoLoad
11 2 (1.82%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Finance
3 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.91%) Law
5 10 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.45%) Retail
8 5 (4.55%) Games
8 5 (4.55%) Legal
9 4 (3.64%) Local Government
9 4 (3.64%) Marketing
9 4 (3.64%) Police
10 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Electronics
10 2 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Aviation
11 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Analyst
2 24 (21.82%) Senior
3 17 (15.45%) Test Engineer
3 17 (15.45%) Test Manager
4 16 (14.55%) Test Analyst
5 14 (12.73%) Lead
6 11 (10.00%) Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Test Leader
8 6 (5.45%) Junior
8 6 (5.45%) Junior Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Junior Software Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.55%) QA Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) QA Automation Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) SaaS Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Automation Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 7 (6.36%) Web Services
3 5 (4.55%) HTML
3 5 (4.55%) XML
4 3 (2.73%) .NET
4 3 (2.73%) ADO
4 3 (2.73%) JSON
4 3 (2.73%) REST
4 3 (2.73%) RESTful
5 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.82%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.82%) XSD
5 2 (1.82%) XSLT
6 1 (0.91%) CSS
6 1 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.91%) Playwright
6 1 (0.91%) SOAP
6 1 (0.91%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) PMI
5 1 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (61.82%) Agile
2 62 (56.36%) Test Automation
3 48 (43.64%) User Acceptance Testing
4 39 (35.45%) Software Testing
5 36 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (32.73%) Test Scripting
6 34 (30.91%) Scrum
7 27 (24.55%) Functional Testing
7 27 (24.55%) Regression Testing
7 27 (24.55%) Test Strategy
8 26 (23.64%) Test Management
9 23 (20.91%) Mentoring
9 23 (20.91%) Performance Testing
10 18 (16.36%) Coaching
11 17 (15.45%) End-to-End Testing
12 16 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (14.55%) Non-Functional Testing
12 16 (14.55%) Project Delivery
12 16 (14.55%) System Integration Testing
13 15 (13.64%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.27%) SQL
2 12 (10.91%) C#
2 12 (10.91%) Python
3 10 (9.09%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.45%) C++
5 6 (5.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.82%) XPath
7 1 (0.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (30.91%) Degree
2 33 (30.00%) ISTQB
3 8 (7.27%) ISEB
3 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.36%) QA
2 9 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) SLA
3 2 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Firmware
2 2 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.45%) Google
4 4 (3.64%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.64%) InterSystems
4 4 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
6 2 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.82%) iManage
6 2 (1.82%) Intapp
6 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.91%) Denodo
7 1 (0.91%) HP
7 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.91%) SAP
7 1 (0.91%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.91%) Talend