Regression Testing Contracts

Regression Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 368 453
Rank change year-on-year -37 +85 -33
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 196 395 472
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 271 340
10th Percentile £321 £310 £312
25th Percentile £363 £409 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.14% +15.29%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £600
90th Percentile £624 £825 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £475 £403
% change year-on-year +7.05% +17.94% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £16.85
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £62.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -63.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -30 154 £475 -13.64% 65
London -10 86 £450 -25.00% 23
UK excluding London -3 73 £509 +7.05% 45
Work from Home +34 66 £413 -17.50% 28
South East +1 33 £538 +11.69% 14
South West +10 14 £538 +2.38% 2
North of England +13 9 £450 +12.50% 17
Scotland +27 8 £450 -5.26% 3
West Midlands +25 4 £438 -12.50% 4
Yorkshire +15 4 £450 -16.28% 6
Midlands +14 4 £438 -12.50% 4
North West +2 4 £363 +25.00% 11
Wales - 3 £509 - 1
East of England +13 2 - - 4
North East +19 1 £450 +20.00%

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (11.73%) Confluence
2 15 (7.65%) Apache
2 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Windchill
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.53%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.53%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.02%) Summit
3 2 (1.02%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Endur
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.78%) Azure
2 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (7.65%) AWS
4 10 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.06%) GitHub
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (2.55%) dbt
6 5 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.55%) Serverless
7 4 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.04%) OCI
8 3 (1.53%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.02%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.02%) PaaS
9 2 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.65%) DHCP
1 15 (7.65%) DNS
2 13 (6.63%) BGP
2 13 (6.63%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (6.63%) MPLS
2 13 (6.63%) VPN
3 12 (6.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.02%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.65%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.65%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.57%) Power BI
5 5 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (2.55%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.04%) MS Access
6 4 (2.04%) Tableau
7 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (1.53%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.02%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.02%) MySQL
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (30.10%) JIRA
2 26 (13.27%) Selenium
3 18 (9.18%) Git
4 14 (7.14%) GitLab
4 14 (7.14%) TestRail
5 13 (6.63%) Jenkins
5 13 (6.63%) Robot Framework
6 12 (6.12%) Cypress.io
7 11 (5.61%) Postman
8 10 (5.10%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.06%) JUnit
10 6 (3.06%) WebDriver
11 4 (2.04%) HP UFT
11 4 (2.04%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (2.04%) TestNG
12 3 (1.53%) Appium
12 3 (1.53%) JMeter
12 3 (1.53%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.76%) Finance
4 15 (7.65%) Military
5 13 (6.63%) Banking
6 12 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.57%) Retail
8 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.04%) Billing
9 4 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.04%) Legal
9 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Electronics
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) German Language
12 1 (0.51%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (19.39%) Test Engineer
2 34 (17.35%) Tester
3 32 (16.33%) Analyst
4 26 (13.27%) Test Analyst
5 18 (9.18%) Lead
6 17 (8.67%) Developer
6 17 (8.67%) QA Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) Test Manager
7 15 (7.65%) Integration Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) Senior
9 12 (6.12%) Automation Tester
10 10 (5.10%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.08%) Consultant
13 6 (3.06%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Manual Tester
13 6 (3.06%) Senior Test Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) React Developer
14 5 (2.55%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.73%) REST
2 16 (8.16%) SOAP
3 13 (6.63%) NETCONF
3 13 (6.63%) RESTCONF
4 12 (6.12%) YANG
5 11 (5.61%) .NET
6 9 (4.59%) XML
7 8 (4.08%) GraphQL
7 8 (4.08%) Web Services
8 7 (3.57%) Middleware
9 5 (2.55%) Gherkin
9 5 (2.55%) JSON
9 5 (2.55%) Next.js
9 5 (2.55%) Node.js
9 5 (2.55%) PySpark
9 5 (2.55%) React
9 5 (2.55%) Redux
9 5 (2.55%) XSLT
10 4 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (2.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.65%) PKI
2 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.04%) e-Health
5 4 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.53%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.53%) NHS
6 3 (1.53%) PACS
6 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.51%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.71%) Windows
2 15 (7.65%) Windows Server
2 15 (7.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 8 (4.08%) Linux
4 6 (3.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (53.06%) Test Automation
2 91 (46.43%) Agile
3 56 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 50 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 39 (19.90%) Scrum
6 38 (19.39%) Performance Testing
6 38 (19.39%) Unit Testing
7 35 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
7 35 (17.86%) Software Testing
7 35 (17.86%) Test Strategy
8 34 (17.35%) Integration Testing
9 33 (16.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (13.27%) DevOps
10 26 (13.27%) Functional Testing
11 22 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (10.71%) Defect Management
13 20 (10.20%) Manual Testing
13 20 (10.20%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.55%) SQL
2 35 (17.86%) Python
3 17 (8.67%) C#
4 15 (7.65%) Java
5 12 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.55%) C++
7 5 (2.55%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.55%) XPath
8 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.53%) C
9 3 (1.53%) Go
9 3 (1.53%) VBScript
10 2 (1.02%) Delphi
10 2 (1.02%) Swift
10 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) SOQL
11 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) Degree
3 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.65%) MCSA
4 15 (7.65%) MCSE
4 15 (7.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (5.10%) ISTQB
6 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.53%) ISEB
9 2 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.02%) PMP
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.43%) QA
2 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) HL7
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.53%) JTAG
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) GxP
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (9.18%) Docker
2 15 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (4.59%) Terraform
2 7 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.04%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.02%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.51%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.73%) Oracle
3 17 (8.67%) VMware
4 16 (8.16%) SAP
5 8 (4.08%) HP
6 7 (3.57%) Workday
7 4 (2.04%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.04%) Ariba
8 3 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.53%) PTC
8 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.53%) Siemens
9 1 (0.51%) Apple
9 1 (0.51%) Cognos
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) Informatica
9 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.51%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.51%) Remedy
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow