Defect Tracking Jobs in the South West

Defect Tracking
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 243 244 253
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +28
Permanent jobs citing Defect Tracking 54 31 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.58% 0.46% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.49% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 17
10th Percentile £35,000 £63,825 £32,650
25th Percentile £43,750 £69,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £75,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% +42.15% -5.58%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,250 £64,106
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,778 6,353 7,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.84% 94.50% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,517 5,034
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,538
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Defect Tracking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Defect Tracking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Tracking in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Defect Tracking in the South West

Defect Tracking
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Defect Tracking in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Tracking within the South West region 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
Devon +16 35 - -
Dorset - 15 £47,500 -
Wiltshire - 2 £32,500 -
Gloucestershire -40 1 £50,000 -33.77%
Bristol - 1 - -
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England

Defect Tracking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.85%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) 5G
1 19 (35.19%) SD-WAN
1 19 (35.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Git
2 12 (22.22%) Visual Studio
3 10 (18.52%) Subversion
4 9 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (3.70%) JMeter
5 2 (3.70%) Postman
5 2 (3.70%) SoapUI
5 2 (3.70%) TestComplete
6 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.85%) Selenium
6 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (35.19%) Electronics
4 12 (22.22%) Marketing
5 11 (20.37%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (20.37%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (9.26%) Aviation
8 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) Software Engineer
2 17 (31.48%) Senior
2 17 (31.48%) Senior Software Engineer
3 11 (20.37%) Lead
3 11 (20.37%) Project Leader
3 11 (20.37%) Technical Leader
3 11 (20.37%) Technical Project Leader
4 8 (14.81%) Developer
4 8 (14.81%) FPGA Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Software Project Leader
5 4 (7.41%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Software Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) QA Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Payments Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Test Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) GNSS
2 12 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (20.37%) FPGA
4 8 (14.81%) MicroBlaze
4 8 (14.81%) Robotics
4 8 (14.81%) VHDL
5 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Linux
2 22 (40.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) Computer Science
2 35 (64.81%) B2B
2 35 (64.81%) Requirements Analysis
3 31 (57.41%) Creative Thinking
4 27 (50.00%) Project Management
4 27 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 23 (42.59%) Innovative Thinking
5 23 (42.59%) Signal Processing
5 23 (42.59%) Test Automation
5 23 (42.59%) Validation
6 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (35.19%) Test Assurance
8 18 (33.33%) Configuration Management
9 16 (29.63%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (25.93%) SDLC
11 12 (22.22%) Digital Signal Processing
11 12 (22.22%) Multithreading
11 12 (22.22%) OO
11 12 (22.22%) Product Marketing
12 11 (20.37%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) C++
2 21 (38.89%) Python
3 20 (37.04%) Perl
4 14 (25.93%) C
5 12 (22.22%) Bash
6 11 (20.37%) MATLAB
7 9 (16.67%) C#
7 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
8 8 (14.81%) Tcl
8 8 (14.81%) VB
9 6 (11.11%) Java
10 2 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (83.33%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) PMP
4 2 (3.70%) ISEB
4 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (42.59%) PMO
2 9 (16.67%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) JTAG
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (14.81%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Altera
1 8 (14.81%) Green Hills
1 8 (14.81%) Motorola
1 8 (14.81%) Xilinx
2 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.85%) VMware