Regression Testing Contracts in Scotland

Regression Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 152 152
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 8 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.58% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 17
10th Percentile £338 £375 £308
25th Percentile £372 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £552 £513 £450
90th Percentile £628 £538 £476
UK median daily rate £456 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -13.10% +7.42% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in Scotland

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in Scotland

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in Scotland

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in Scotland

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +40 4 £563 +25.00% 2
Glasgow +9 2 £500 +5.26%
Lanarkshire +3 2 £388 +3.33%
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Tricentis qTest
1 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (12.50%) Gatling
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (25.00%) SDET
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) HP