Issue Tracking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Issue Tracking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Issue 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 758 863 815
Rank change year-on-year +105 -48 -19
Permanent jobs citing Issue Tracking 126 112 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.12% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 75 75 183
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,100 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £35,980
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £85,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Issue 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%

Issue Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue Tracking
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Issue Tracking in the UK

Issue 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 Issue 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 +100 109 £52,500 -8.70% 27
UK excluding London -5 79 £52,500 +5.00% 19
London +115 40 £52,500 -34.38% 6
North of England +55 33 £52,500 +64.06% 5
Work from Home +65 32 £52,500 -8.70% 13
South East +4 25 £33,250 -40.89% 5
Yorkshire +93 22 £52,500 - 4
West Midlands +15 11 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Midlands -5 11 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Scotland -68 10 - -
North West +5 9 £40,000 +25.00%
North East - 2 £23,625 - 1
East of England -6 1 - - 1

Issue 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 33 (26.19%) CMS
2 12 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Photoshop
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (26.19%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) Azure
2 16 (12.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 16 (12.70%) NuGet
3 13 (10.32%) AWS
4 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.59%) SaaS
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) DHCP
1 1 (0.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (50.79%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.97%) OLAP
3 5 (3.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.38%) MySQL
4 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (63.49%) JIRA
2 65 (51.59%) Git
3 38 (30.16%) NUnit
4 33 (26.19%) Moq
4 33 (26.19%) TeamCity
5 17 (13.49%) GitLab
6 16 (12.70%) git-flow
6 16 (12.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (12.70%) Sourcetree
6 16 (12.70%) SpecFlow
6 16 (12.70%) Visual Studio
7 5 (3.97%) MSTest
8 2 (1.59%) Postman
8 2 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.79%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (51.59%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.57%) Marketing
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.73%) Manufacturing
5 9 (7.14%) Finance
6 6 (4.76%) Games
7 4 (3.17%) Banking
8 3 (2.38%) Electronics
8 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) iGaming
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (49.21%) Developer
2 41 (32.54%) Full Stack Developer
3 22 (17.46%) Senior
4 21 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.49%) C# Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Senior C# Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Senior Full Stack Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Support Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Database Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) IT Support
8 9 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Lead
10 6 (4.76%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Web Applications Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (43.65%) .NET
1 55 (43.65%) .NET Framework
1 55 (43.65%) Entity Framework
2 47 (37.30%) CSS
2 47 (37.30%) HTML
2 47 (37.30%) Web Services
3 42 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 38 (30.16%) ASP.NET MVC
5 35 (27.78%) RESTful
6 34 (26.98%) React
7 33 (26.19%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 33 (26.19%) SOAP
8 32 (25.40%) jQuery
8 32 (25.40%) Semantic HTML
9 17 (13.49%) AngularJS
9 17 (13.49%) Autofac
9 17 (13.49%) Ninject
10 16 (12.70%) Classic ASP
10 16 (12.70%) Code First Entity Framework
10 16 (12.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.40%) Legacy Code
2 21 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.97%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.17%) Derivative
6 4 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.38%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (2.38%) Mobile Games
7 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.38%) Robotics
8 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.59%) FMCG
8 2 (1.59%) Replication
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Windows
1 9 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.03%) Computer Science
2 57 (45.24%) Agile
3 51 (40.48%) MVC
4 44 (34.92%) Unit Testing
5 41 (32.54%) Full Stack Development
6 38 (30.16%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (29.37%) DevOps
7 37 (29.37%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (27.78%) E-Commerce
8 35 (27.78%) Mentoring
9 32 (25.40%) Responsive Web Design
10 22 (17.46%) Line Management
10 22 (17.46%) Scrum
11 21 (16.67%) TDD
12 20 (15.87%) SOLID
13 17 (13.49%) Architectural Patterns
13 17 (13.49%) Inversion of Control
13 17 (13.49%) OO
14 16 (12.70%) Architectural Design
14 16 (12.70%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 67 (53.17%) C#
2 63 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 51 (40.48%) SQL
4 42 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 16 (12.70%) XPath
6 9 (7.14%) PHP
7 6 (4.76%) C
8 5 (3.97%) VBA
9 3 (2.38%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) Java
10 1 (0.79%) Perl
10 1 (0.79%) Python
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (62.70%) Degree
2 24 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.17%) CCAB
4 4 (3.17%) CISA
4 4 (3.17%) CISM
4 4 (3.17%) CISSP
4 4 (3.17%) QiCA
5 3 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.59%) ISEB
6 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.90%) QA
2 11 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.76%) IEC 62304
4 4 (3.17%) COBIT
4 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) ITGC
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) SOC 1
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (7.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.70%) Adobe
2 16 (12.70%) Cognizant
3 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.79%) IBM
4 1 (0.79%) Meraki