Regression Testing Contracts in England

Regression Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Regression Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Regression Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 337 439
Rank change year-on-year -62 +102 -66
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 152 331 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 222 270
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.11% +8.79%
75th Percentile £556 £709 £650
90th Percentile £650 £836 £825
UK median daily rate £475 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -10.59% +11.84% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile - - £25.00
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.45
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -63.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Regression Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -10 86 £440 -26.67% 33
South East -10 30 £538 +8.86% 8
South West -1 15 £538 +13.16% 6
North of England +3 9 £450 +12.50% 14
Midlands +19 6 £475 -8.43% 6
West Midlands +13 6 £475 -5.00% 6
Yorkshire +13 4 £450 -19.28% 3
North West +7 4 £363 +2.11% 10
East of England 0 2 - - 2
North East +11 1 £450 +20.00% 1
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (17.11%) Confluence
2 18 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (7.24%) Apache
4 9 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Windchill
2 2 (1.32%) Trello
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (2.63%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.97%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.97%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.66%) Endur
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.13%) Azure
2 17 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.95%) AWS
4 6 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.63%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.32%) Serverless
6 2 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.66%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.66%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.66%) OCI
7 1 (0.66%) SaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.84%) DHCP
1 18 (11.84%) DNS
2 9 (5.92%) BGP
2 9 (5.92%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (5.92%) MPLS
2 9 (5.92%) VPN
3 8 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.55%) NoSQL
1 13 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.24%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.61%) Power BI
4 5 (3.29%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (2.63%) MS Access
5 4 (2.63%) Tableau
6 3 (1.97%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) Metadata
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.66%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.66%) QlikView
7 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (30.92%) JIRA
2 17 (11.18%) Selenium
3 13 (8.55%) Git
3 13 (8.55%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.89%) Postman
5 10 (6.58%) TestRail
6 9 (5.92%) GitLab
6 9 (5.92%) Robot Framework
7 8 (5.26%) Cypress.io
8 7 (4.61%) SpecFlow
9 5 (3.29%) JMeter
9 5 (3.29%) JUnit
10 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.63%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.63%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.97%) TestComplete
11 3 (1.97%) TestNG
11 3 (1.97%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 40 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.79%) Finance
4 18 (11.84%) Military
5 9 (5.92%) Banking
6 8 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.63%) Billing
9 4 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.63%) Legal
9 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.32%) Electronics
11 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.66%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (21.71%) Test Engineer
2 26 (17.11%) Tester
3 23 (15.13%) Analyst
4 19 (12.50%) Test Manager
5 17 (11.18%) Developer
5 17 (11.18%) Test Analyst
6 16 (10.53%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) QA Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Lead
9 10 (6.58%) Senior
10 7 (4.61%) Test Leader
11 6 (3.95%) Automation Tester
11 6 (3.95%) Consultant
11 6 (3.95%) Manual Tester
11 6 (3.95%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.29%) React Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.82%) REST
2 12 (7.89%) SOAP
3 10 (6.58%) .NET
4 9 (5.92%) NETCONF
4 9 (5.92%) RESTCONF
4 9 (5.92%) Swagger
5 8 (5.26%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.26%) YANG
6 7 (4.61%) JSON
7 6 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (3.95%) XML
8 5 (3.29%) Next.js
8 5 (3.29%) Node.js
8 5 (3.29%) React
8 5 (3.29%) Redux
9 4 (2.63%) ADO
10 3 (1.97%) CSS
10 3 (1.97%) HTML
10 3 (1.97%) Middleware
10 3 (1.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.84%) PKI
2 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.63%) e-Health
3 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.97%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.97%) NHS
4 3 (1.97%) PACS
4 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.66%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.66%) Solar Panel
6 1 (0.66%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.47%) Windows
2 18 (11.84%) Windows Server
2 18 (11.84%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (4.61%) Linux
4 6 (3.95%) Unix
5 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (50.66%) Agile
2 76 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 50 (32.89%) Test Scripting
4 34 (22.37%) CI/CD
5 32 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
5 32 (21.05%) Scrum
6 28 (18.42%) Performance Testing
6 28 (18.42%) Test Strategy
6 28 (18.42%) Unit Testing
7 26 (17.11%) Software Testing
7 26 (17.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (13.82%) Integration Testing
9 20 (13.16%) Functional Testing
10 19 (12.50%) DevOps
10 19 (12.50%) Test Planning
11 18 (11.84%) Critical Thinking
11 18 (11.84%) TDD
12 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (9.87%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.55%) SQL
2 26 (17.11%) Python
3 15 (9.87%) C#
4 14 (9.21%) Java
5 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.61%) C++
7 6 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.97%) C
8 3 (1.97%) Go
8 3 (1.97%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.32%) Delphi
9 2 (1.32%) ProC
9 2 (1.32%) Swift
9 2 (1.32%) VBScript
10 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.66%) R
10 1 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 34 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (11.84%) MCSA
4 18 (11.84%) MCSE
4 18 (11.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (9.87%) Degree
6 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.29%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.97%) ISEB
10 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.42%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) HL7
4 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.97%) JTAG
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Active Directory
1 18 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (9.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.32%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 31 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.16%) VMware
3 15 (9.87%) Oracle
4 11 (7.24%) SAP
5 4 (2.63%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.97%) HP
6 3 (1.97%) PTC
6 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.97%) Siemens
7 1 (0.66%) Apple
7 1 (0.66%) Calypso
7 1 (0.66%) Informatica
7 1 (0.66%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.66%) Pega
7 1 (0.66%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.66%) Remedy
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow