Regression Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Regression Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 128 146
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 -31
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 16 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.76% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.83% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 15
10th Percentile - £313 £309
25th Percentile £300 £328 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £444 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +10.94% -1.23%
75th Percentile £516 £510 £495
90th Percentile £566 £540 £521
South East median daily rate £538 £494 £445
% change year-on-year +8.86% +10.96% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £42.83
% change year-on-year - - -24.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the Thames Valley

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the Thames Valley

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the Thames Valley

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the Thames Valley

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire -7 14 £300 -40.15% 3
Buckinghamshire +20 2 £475 +38.69% 1
Regression Testing
South East

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (68.75%) Apache
1 11 (68.75%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) BGP
1 11 (68.75%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (68.75%) MPLS
1 11 (68.75%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (68.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) MongoDB
1 11 (68.75%) NoSQL
1 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) GitLab
1 11 (68.75%) JIRA
1 11 (68.75%) Robot Framework
1 11 (68.75%) TestRail
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Automotive
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Network Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Test Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) NETCONF
1 11 (68.75%) REST
1 11 (68.75%) RESTCONF
1 11 (68.75%) SOAP
1 11 (68.75%) YANG
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Unit Testing
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 12 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
3 11 (68.75%) Integration Testing
3 11 (68.75%) Scrum
3 11 (68.75%) Security Testing
3 11 (68.75%) Workflow
4 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 2 (12.50%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (12.50%) Accounts Receivable
5 2 (12.50%) Cash Management
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
5 2 (12.50%) Process Management
5 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle