Regression Testing Contracts in England

Regression Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 394 346
Rank change year-on-year +56 -48 +102
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 147 148 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.40% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.46% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 97 240
10th Percentile £313 £316 £300
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £713
90th Percentile £873 £625 £838
UK median daily rate £450 £456 £525
% change year-on-year -1.37% -13.10% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.20 - -
Median hourly rate £21.40 - -
75th Percentile £21.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Regression Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +44 86 £500 +13.64% 106
South East +40 27 £450 -16.28% 68
North of England +19 9 £361 -19.72% 36
Midlands +26 8 £370 -15.43% 31
West Midlands +18 8 £370 -15.43% 23
South West +39 7 £475 -11.63% 16
North West +18 5 £333 -8.28% 21
Yorkshire +7 3 £450 - 10
East of England +29 1 - - 29
North East 0 1 £363 -19.44% 5
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Appian
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.68%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.36%) MultiFonds
3 2 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.36%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.36%) Shopify
4 1 (0.68%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.88%) AWS
1 16 (10.88%) Azure
2 12 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (7.48%) SaaS
4 8 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.44%) Serverless
5 5 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.40%) GitHub
6 4 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.72%) OCI
7 3 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.36%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.36%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.36%) Boomi
8 2 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.24%) MPLS
1 18 (12.24%) VPN
2 17 (11.56%) LAN
2 17 (11.56%) LTE
3 16 (10.88%) ATM
3 16 (10.88%) Ethernet
3 16 (10.88%) Frame Relay
3 16 (10.88%) GPRS
3 16 (10.88%) GSM
3 16 (10.88%) SAN
3 16 (10.88%) SDH
3 16 (10.88%) UMTS
3 16 (10.88%) WAN
3 16 (10.88%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.36%) BGP
4 2 (1.36%) DHCP
4 2 (1.36%) DNS
4 2 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.68%) 3G
5 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.68%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) DB2
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.68%) Power BI
4 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (22.45%) JIRA
2 27 (18.37%) Selenium
3 19 (12.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.84%) Postman
5 12 (8.16%) Git
5 12 (8.16%) JMeter
6 10 (6.80%) Cypress.io
6 10 (6.80%) JUnit
7 9 (6.12%) REST Assured
8 7 (4.76%) GitLab
9 5 (3.40%) TestNG
10 4 (2.72%) LoadRunner
11 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.04%) Travis CI
11 3 (2.04%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.36%) Gatling
12 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.36%) TestCafe
12 2 (1.36%) TestRail
General
1 66 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.81%) Finance
3 29 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.61%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.52%) Front Office
6 12 (8.16%) Financial Institution
7 10 (6.80%) Banking
7 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.72%) Marketing
9 4 (2.72%) Military
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
10 3 (2.04%) Back Office
11 2 (1.36%) Games
11 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.05%) Analyst
2 22 (14.97%) Test Engineer
3 20 (13.61%) Developer
4 19 (12.93%) Test Analyst
5 16 (10.88%) Lead
6 15 (10.20%) Business Analyst
6 15 (10.20%) IP Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) Tester
7 11 (7.48%) QA Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Senior
8 10 (6.80%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 10 (6.80%) Test Manager
9 9 (6.12%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 9 (6.12%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Consultant
11 6 (4.08%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) React Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Test Leader
12 5 (3.40%) AWS Developer
12 5 (3.40%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) Node.js
1 8 (5.44%) React
2 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
2 6 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (4.08%) Next.js
2 6 (4.08%) Redux
3 5 (3.40%) Playwright
4 4 (2.72%) REST
4 4 (2.72%) SOAP
5 3 (2.04%) .NET
5 3 (2.04%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.04%) JSON
5 3 (2.04%) Kafka
5 3 (2.04%) XML
5 3 (2.04%) YAML
6 2 (1.36%) CSS3
6 2 (1.36%) MACH
6 2 (1.36%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.36%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.36%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.12%) Fixed Income
2 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.04%) Credit Risk
3 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.36%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.36%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.36%) PKI
4 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) EPoS
5 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.93%) Linux
2 18 (12.24%) Unix
3 4 (2.72%) Windows
4 3 (2.04%) Android
4 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.36%) CentOS
5 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 59 (40.14%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (34.01%) Agile
4 42 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 41 (27.89%) Test Strategy
6 37 (25.17%) Manual Testing
7 33 (22.45%) Test Scripting
8 30 (20.41%) CI/CD
9 27 (18.37%) Integration Testing
10 24 (16.33%) Performance Testing
11 19 (12.93%) Project Management
12 18 (12.24%) DevOps
12 18 (12.24%) Scrum
13 17 (11.56%) Security Testing
14 16 (10.88%) API Testing
14 16 (10.88%) Fault Management
14 16 (10.88%) Software Testing
15 15 (10.20%) Test Management
16 14 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
17 13 (8.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.85%) Java
2 26 (17.69%) Python
3 22 (14.97%) SQL
4 13 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.12%) C#
5 9 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.04%) ABAP
6 3 (2.04%) Bash
6 3 (2.04%) R
7 2 (1.36%) C++
7 2 (1.36%) PHP
7 2 (1.36%) RPG
7 2 (1.36%) SOQL
8 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.68%) Go
8 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) ISTQB
2 26 (17.69%) Degree
3 18 (12.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 17 (11.56%) ISEB
5 16 (10.88%) CCNP
5 16 (10.88%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
7 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
8 11 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.04%) CEH
10 3 (2.04%) CISSP
11 2 (1.36%) MCSA
11 2 (1.36%) MCSE
11 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (33.33%) QA
2 9 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) Basel II
4 1 (0.68%) Basel III
4 1 (0.68%) GxP
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Kibana
3 2 (1.36%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.36%) Terraform
4 1 (0.68%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) OPNET
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.29%) Cisco
3 17 (11.56%) Juniper
4 16 (10.88%) SAP
5 14 (9.52%) Salesforce
6 10 (6.80%) Oracle
7 9 (6.12%) ION Trading
8 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.04%) VMware
10 2 (1.36%) Adobe
10 2 (1.36%) Concur
10 2 (1.36%) HP
10 2 (1.36%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.68%) Arista
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.68%) Mavenir
11 1 (0.68%) Sparx
11 1 (0.68%) Splunk
11 1 (0.68%) Workday