Regression Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Regression Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 290 315 409
Rank change year-on-year +25 +94 -52
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 57 154 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.61% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.68% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 103 166
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £409 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £461
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.98% +8.53%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £550
90th Percentile £575 £825 £675
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.14% +13.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Regression Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Regression Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing.

Regression Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Regression Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing.

Regression Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.75%) Confluence
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) AWS
3 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.77%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (8.77%) dbt
4 5 (8.77%) Serverless
5 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.51%) OCI
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) SAP HANA
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) JIRA
2 10 (17.54%) Selenium
3 8 (14.04%) Git
4 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.26%) JUnit
5 3 (5.26%) TestNG
6 2 (3.51%) Appium
6 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.51%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (3.51%) SpecFlow
6 2 (3.51%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.75%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.75%) Postman
7 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.75%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Electronics
5 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) German Language
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Analyst
2 13 (22.81%) Test Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Test Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Tester
5 6 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Developer
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Test Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.51%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) .NET
1 5 (8.77%) PySpark
2 3 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.26%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) SAP Basis
2 3 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.51%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.51%) Middleware
3 2 (3.51%) Next.js
3 2 (3.51%) Node.js
3 2 (3.51%) React
3 2 (3.51%) Redux
3 2 (3.51%) Web Services
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.75%) Playwright
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
4 1 (1.75%) XML
4 1 (1.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Test Automation
2 21 (36.84%) Test Scripting
3 19 (33.33%) Agile
4 17 (29.82%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (28.07%) Software Testing
5 16 (28.07%) Unit Testing
6 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.05%) DevOps
7 12 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (19.30%) Test Strategy
9 10 (17.54%) Functional Testing
10 9 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (15.79%) Manual Testing
10 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
12 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (12.28%) Test Management
12 7 (12.28%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) Java
2 9 (15.79%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) SOQL
5 1 (1.75%) VB
5 1 (1.75%) VBScript
5 1 (1.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.51%) PMP
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Terraform
2 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Ariba
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) HP
5 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.51%) VMware
6 1 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.75%) Databricks
6 1 (1.75%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.75%) Workday