Defect Management Jobs

Defect Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 796 675 682
Rank change year-on-year -121 +7 +64
Permanent jobs citing Defect Management 126 276 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 94 120 191
10th Percentile £36,400 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,497 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,591 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +13.40% +14.12% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Management in the UK

Defect Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -84 114 £54,169 +8.34% 27
UK excluding London -132 99 £55,000 +13.40% 24
Work from Home +13 61 £55,000 +10.00% 9
North of England +26 31 £57,965 +28.81% 5
London +30 26 £55,000 +7.84% 7
Yorkshire +76 23 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Midlands -22 22 £40,000 -28.89% 4
South East -57 18 £56,000 +12.00% 6
West Midlands +2 17 £40,000 -28.89% 3
South West -26 10 £55,000 +18.28% 4
East of England -43 7 £40,000 -
Wales - 6 £70,000 -
North West -14 5 £56,067 -2.49%
East Midlands -36 5 £49,329 - 1
Scotland -70 5 - - 4
North East -20 3 £48,232 +75.39% 1

Defect Management
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 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Drupal
2 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.49%) Azure
2 12 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.73%) SaaS
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (3.17%) dbt
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
4 4 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.59%) AWS
6 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) BGP
1 2 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (1.59%) DNS
1 2 (1.59%) Firewall
1 2 (1.59%) IPsec
1 2 (1.59%) LAN
1 2 (1.59%) NX-OS
1 2 (1.59%) OSPF
1 2 (1.59%) VoIP
1 2 (1.59%) VPN
1 2 (1.59%) WAN
1 2 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.97%) Tableau
4 4 (3.17%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (3.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (32.54%) JIRA
2 31 (24.60%) Selenium
3 14 (11.11%) JMeter
4 12 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 10 (7.94%) LoadRunner
6 9 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (7.14%) Zephyr
7 8 (6.35%) SoapUI
7 8 (6.35%) TeamCity
7 8 (6.35%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.56%) Postman
8 7 (5.56%) TestRail
9 6 (4.76%) Appium
9 6 (4.76%) Git
10 5 (3.97%) HP UFT
10 5 (3.97%) MSTest
11 4 (3.17%) JUnit
11 4 (3.17%) SpecFlow
11 4 (3.17%) TestNG
12 3 (2.38%) NUnit
General
1 53 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.60%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Law
5 11 (8.73%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 9 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.76%) Retail
9 5 (3.97%) Games
9 5 (3.97%) Legal
10 4 (3.17%) Local Government
10 4 (3.17%) Marketing
10 4 (3.17%) Police
11 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Electronics
12 2 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 27 (21.43%) Analyst
2 24 (19.05%) Senior
3 22 (17.46%) Lead
4 21 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 17 (13.49%) Test Manager
6 16 (12.70%) Test Analyst
7 12 (9.52%) Developer
8 11 (8.73%) QA Engineer
8 11 (8.73%) Test Leader
9 8 (6.35%) Quality Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Junior
10 7 (5.56%) Junior Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Junior Software Developer
10 7 (5.56%) QA Leader
10 7 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) QA Analyst
12 5 (3.97%) QA Automation Analyst
12 5 (3.97%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.73%) Gherkin
2 7 (5.56%) Web Services
3 6 (4.76%) XML
4 5 (3.97%) HTML
5 3 (2.38%) .NET
5 3 (2.38%) ADO
5 3 (2.38%) JSON
5 3 (2.38%) REST
5 3 (2.38%) RESTful
6 2 (1.59%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.59%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.59%) XSD
6 2 (1.59%) XSLT
7 1 (0.79%) CSS
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) Playwright
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.35%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (59.52%) Agile
1 75 (59.52%) Test Automation
2 50 (39.68%) User Acceptance Testing
3 47 (37.30%) Software Testing
4 38 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (30.16%) Test Scripting
5 34 (26.98%) Scrum
6 30 (23.81%) Test Strategy
7 28 (22.22%) Functional Testing
7 28 (22.22%) Regression Testing
8 27 (21.43%) Test Management
9 24 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 24 (19.05%) Performance Testing
10 22 (17.46%) CI/CD
11 21 (16.67%) DevOps
12 20 (15.87%) Coaching
12 20 (15.87%) End-to-End Testing
13 17 (13.49%) Computer Science
13 17 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (13.49%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.40%) SQL
2 14 (11.11%) C#
3 12 (9.52%) Python
4 11 (8.73%) Java
5 8 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.56%) C++
7 6 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.59%) XPath
9 1 (0.79%) PHP
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 34 (26.98%) Degree
3 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.94%) ISEB
4 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.59%) CCIE
8 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.57%) QA
2 10 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) SLA
3 2 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.17%) Firmware
2 2 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) MuleSoft
2 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.76%) Google
3 6 (4.76%) OutSystems
4 5 (3.97%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.17%) InterSystems
5 4 (3.17%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle
6 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.59%) Cisco
7 2 (1.59%) iManage
7 2 (1.59%) Intapp
7 2 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.59%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.79%) Denodo
8 1 (0.79%) HP
8 1 (0.79%) SAP
8 1 (0.79%) Talend