Defect Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Defect Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 791 869 949
Rank change year-on-year +78 +80 -80
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 93 106 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50 56 134
10th Percentile £29,825 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,938 £67,500 £64,106
90th Percentile £65,250 £85,375 £81,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £38,049
% change year-on-year +5.56% +18.27% -13.03%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

Defect Tracking
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +75 81 £45,000 -10.00% 12
UK excluding London -6 70 £47,500 +5.56% 10
South West +1 54 £47,500 -37.09%
Work from Home +64 27 £35,000 -41.67% 5
London +94 12 £42,500 -29.17% 2
North of England +37 9 £37,500 - 1
North West +2 5 £45,000 -34.55%
Yorkshire +80 4 £35,000 -6.67% 1
East of England +7 2 - - 3
South East -1 2 £52,500 +2.44% 1
Midlands -15 2 £35,000 -6.67% 4
East Midlands -23 2 £35,000 -6.67%
Scotland -67 1 £60,000 +9.09% 1

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 5 (5.38%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) Apache
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) IIS
3 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.38%) Trello
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Azure
2 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.38%) ClickUp
4 3 (3.23%) dbt
4 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.51%) 5G
1 20 (21.51%) SD-WAN
1 20 (21.51%) WAN
2 4 (4.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.23%) Big Data
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.08%) MySQL
3 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Power BI
3 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (31.18%) JIRA
2 16 (17.20%) Git
3 13 (13.98%) Visual Studio
4 10 (10.75%) Postman
4 10 (10.75%) Subversion
5 6 (6.45%) Selenium
6 4 (4.30%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (4.30%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.23%) Deequ
8 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.15%) JMeter
8 2 (2.15%) JUnit
8 2 (2.15%) TestComplete
9 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.58%) Electronics
4 13 (13.98%) Marketing
5 12 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (11.83%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (5.38%) Aviation
8 5 (5.38%) Finance
9 2 (2.15%) Automotive
9 2 (2.15%) Law
10 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Software Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) Senior
3 18 (19.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Lead
5 11 (11.83%) Project Leader
5 11 (11.83%) Technical Leader
5 11 (11.83%) Technical Project Leader
6 9 (9.68%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) FPGA Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Junior
7 8 (8.60%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Software Project Leader
7 8 (8.60%) Tester
8 7 (7.53%) Analyst
8 7 (7.53%) Junior QA Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Software Tester
10 5 (5.38%) Graduate
10 5 (5.38%) Security Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) Web Services
2 5 (5.38%) .NET
2 5 (5.38%) HTML
2 5 (5.38%) XML
3 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
3 4 (4.30%) REST
3 4 (4.30%) XSLT
4 3 (3.23%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.15%) RESTful
5 2 (2.15%) SOAP
6 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.08%) CSS
6 1 (1.08%) HTML5
6 1 (1.08%) JSON
6 1 (1.08%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) GNSS
2 12 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (11.83%) FPGA
4 8 (8.60%) MicroBlaze
4 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.60%) Robotics
4 8 (8.60%) VHDL
5 4 (4.30%) NHS
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.15%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 42 (45.16%) Linux
2 27 (29.03%) Windows
3 8 (8.60%) Ubuntu
4 6 (6.45%) Debian
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Computer Science
2 46 (49.46%) Test Automation
3 36 (38.71%) B2B
3 36 (38.71%) Requirements Analysis
4 34 (36.56%) Project Management
4 34 (36.56%) Software Engineering
5 32 (34.41%) Creative Thinking
5 32 (34.41%) Validation
6 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (26.88%) Agile
7 25 (26.88%) Innovative Thinking
8 24 (25.81%) Signal Processing
9 23 (24.73%) Software Testing
10 21 (22.58%) Configuration Management
11 20 (21.51%) SDLC
11 20 (21.51%) Test Assurance
12 18 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.05%) OO
14 13 (13.98%) Multithreading
14 13 (13.98%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.63%) C++
2 30 (32.26%) Python
3 21 (22.58%) Perl
4 17 (18.28%) C#
5 16 (17.20%) JavaScript
6 15 (16.13%) C
6 15 (16.13%) SQL
7 13 (13.98%) Bash
7 13 (13.98%) MATLAB
8 10 (10.75%) Java
9 8 (8.60%) Tcl
9 8 (8.60%) VB
10 4 (4.30%) Groovy
10 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.08%) PHP
11 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (66.67%) Degree
2 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.53%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.30%) CIPD
4 4 (4.30%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.30%) PMP
5 3 (3.23%) HND
5 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) ISEB
6 2 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.08%) HNC
7 1 (1.08%) MCSA
7 1 (1.08%) MCSE
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.96%) QA
2 24 (25.81%) PMO
3 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.23%) JTAG
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (8.60%) Firmware
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Altera
1 8 (8.60%) Green Hills
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.60%) Motorola
1 8 (8.60%) Xilinx
2 5 (5.38%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) Google
4 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.23%) Databricks
5 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.15%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.08%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat