Regression Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 319 349
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 -39
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 72 138 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.59% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.66% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 101 109
10th Percentile £313 £270 £284
25th Percentile £400 £319 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £495
90th Percentile £566 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.14% +13.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £16.78
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £27.63
90th Percentile - - £53.72
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -15 33 £538 +10.26% 13
South West +11 13 £538 +19.44% 9
North of England +10 9 £450 +9.09% 12
Scotland +35 8 £450 -5.26% 2
Yorkshire +22 4 £450 -19.28% 4
Midlands +22 4 £438 -12.50% 7
West Midlands +20 4 £438 -12.50% 6
North West +11 4 £363 +3.57% 8
Wales - 3 £509 - 3
East of England 0 2 - - 7
North East +15 1 £450 +20.00%
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (20.83%) Confluence
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (15.28%) Apache
2 11 (15.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.72%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.17%) GitHub
4 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.78%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.83%) DHCP
1 15 (20.83%) DNS
2 11 (15.28%) BGP
2 11 (15.28%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (15.28%) MPLS
2 11 (15.28%) Radio Access Network
2 11 (15.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.28%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.94%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (6.94%) Power BI
4 4 (5.56%) MS Access
4 4 (5.56%) Tableau
5 2 (2.78%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 32 (44.44%) JIRA
2 11 (15.28%) GitLab
2 11 (15.28%) Robot Framework
2 11 (15.28%) TestRail
3 7 (9.72%) Selenium
4 5 (6.94%) Git
4 5 (6.94%) Postman
5 3 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.17%) Subversion
6 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.78%) TestComplete
6 2 (2.78%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (2.78%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.78%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.39%) Appium
7 1 (1.39%) Gatling
7 1 (1.39%) JMeter
7 1 (1.39%) Katalon Studio
General
1 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Military
4 14 (19.44%) Finance
5 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.33%) Retail
7 4 (5.56%) Billing
7 4 (5.56%) Legal
8 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.78%) Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.39%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) Electronics
10 1 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Integration Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Analyst
4 10 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Tester
5 9 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 6 (8.33%) Test Manager
7 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Project Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.17%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.17%) Developer
9 3 (4.17%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) REST
2 11 (15.28%) NETCONF
2 11 (15.28%) RESTCONF
2 11 (15.28%) SOAP
2 11 (15.28%) YANG
3 3 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.17%) gRPC
3 3 (4.17%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.78%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.78%) Playwright
4 2 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (1.39%) .NET
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.39%) Middleware
5 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.39%) Swagger
5 1 (1.39%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) PKI
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.56%) e-Health
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 15 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (5.56%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.17%) Agile
2 35 (48.61%) Test Automation
3 33 (45.83%) Test Scripting
4 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 21 (29.17%) Scrum
6 16 (22.22%) Integration Testing
6 16 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 15 (20.83%) Critical Thinking
7 15 (20.83%) Scenario Testing
8 14 (19.44%) Performance Testing
8 14 (19.44%) Test Strategy
8 14 (19.44%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.28%) Security Testing
10 11 (15.28%) Workflow
11 10 (13.89%) Defect Management
12 8 (11.11%) Manual Testing
13 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
13 7 (9.72%) Software Testing
13 7 (9.72%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) SQL
2 17 (23.61%) Python
3 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.56%) C#
4 4 (5.56%) C++
4 4 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (4.17%) Go
5 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.78%) C
6 2 (2.78%) Delphi
6 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.78%) VBScript
7 1 (1.39%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.39%) ProC
7 1 (1.39%) SOQL
7 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) MCSA
2 15 (20.83%) MCSE
2 15 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) JTAG
3 2 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
1 15 (20.83%) Docker
1 15 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.83%) VMware
3 12 (16.67%) Oracle
4 8 (11.11%) SAP
5 4 (5.56%) Alteryx
6 3 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.78%) HP
7 2 (2.78%) Salesforce