Defect Tracking Contracts

Defect Tracking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Defect Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Tracking over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 639 754
Rank change year-on-year +115 +115 -78
Contract jobs citing Defect Tracking 60 58 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 46
10th Percentile £361 £384 £324
25th Percentile £409 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +16.13% -5.49%
75th Percentile £517 £475 £484
90th Percentile £610 £512 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £395
% change year-on-year -2.22% +14.07% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £16.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Defect Tracking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Defect Tracking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Defect Tracking in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 52 £468 +3.89% 10
UK excluding London +39 34 £440 -2.22% 9
Work from Home +110 30 £468 +3.89% 1
London +84 21 £468 +12.65%
South East +24 13 £390 -7.14% 2
North of England +20 8 £517 +1.67% 1
Scotland +50 7 £400 -13.51%
Yorkshire +19 7 £517 +0.83% 1
Midlands +20 5 £450 -10.00% 2
West Midlands +20 4 £525 +5.00% 1
North West +14 1 - -
East of England +5 1 £440 +35.38% 2
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 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 9 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Firebase
2 8 (13.33%) BlazeMeter
2 8 (13.33%) BrowserStack
2 8 (13.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 6 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.67%) Azure
5 1 (1.67%) Boomi
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Internet
1 4 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
1 2 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) Big Data
2 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) JIRA
2 13 (21.67%) JMeter
2 13 (21.67%) Postman
3 12 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 11 (18.33%) Appium
4 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
5 9 (15.00%) GitLab
6 8 (13.33%) Selenium
7 6 (10.00%) Git
8 5 (8.33%) Cucumber
9 4 (6.67%) Subversion
10 2 (3.33%) Bugzilla
10 2 (3.33%) ClearCase
10 2 (3.33%) ClearQuest
10 2 (3.33%) JUnit
10 2 (3.33%) TestNG
10 2 (3.33%) TestRail
11 1 (1.67%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.67%) UI Automator
11 1 (1.67%) XCUITest
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.67%) Electronics
5 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Test Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Tester
3 8 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Test Manager
4 7 (11.67%) QA Tester
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) QA Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) ABAP Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Automation Tester
7 3 (5.00%) Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Manual Tester
7 3 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Middleware
1 9 (15.00%) WebdriverIO
2 8 (13.33%) Web Services
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (5.00%) BAPI
4 3 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 3 (5.00%) JSON
5 2 (3.33%) CSS
5 2 (3.33%) HTML
5 2 (3.33%) XML
6 1 (1.67%) Jest
6 1 (1.67%) Playwright
6 1 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Device Driver
2 5 (8.33%) Life Science
3 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.67%) IoT
3 4 (6.67%) PCIe
3 4 (6.67%) Verilog
3 4 (6.67%) VHDL
4 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (6.67%) VxWorks
3 2 (3.33%) Android
3 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) Agile
2 32 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 22 (36.67%) Test Planning
4 21 (35.00%) Test Strategy
5 20 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (33.33%) Test Management
6 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
7 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
8 16 (26.67%) Scrum
8 16 (26.67%) Software Testing
9 15 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (21.67%) Validation
11 11 (18.33%) Analytics
11 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (16.67%) Performance Testing
12 10 (16.67%) Test Scripting
13 8 (13.33%) Manual Testing
13 8 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
13 8 (13.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (16.67%) Python
3 8 (13.33%) C
3 8 (13.33%) Java
4 6 (10.00%) SQL
5 4 (6.67%) Assembly Language
5 4 (6.67%) C++
5 4 (6.67%) Embedded C
5 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
5 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.00%) ABAP
7 1 (1.67%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.67%) ISTQB
4 7 (11.67%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.67%) PhD
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) HL7
2 4 (6.67%) JTAG
2 4 (6.67%) MISRA
2 4 (6.67%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Firmware
2 4 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.67%) Intel
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce