Regression Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Regression Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 356 332
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 +43
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 231 159 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.61% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 97 181
10th Percentile £301 £281 £350
25th Percentile £362 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £634 £661 £695
UK median daily rate £450 £469 £515
% change year-on-year -4.00% -8.98% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.43
Median hourly rate - - £23.86
75th Percentile - - £48.14
90th Percentile - - £62.46
UK median hourly rate - £25.60 £23.86
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -45.94%

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 27,668 25,905 33,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.00% 88.32% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,615 15,999 22,793
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 882 1,400
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.26 £74.99 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Regression Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in England

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regression Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regression Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regression Testing

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 14 December 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 +13 124 £450 -10.00% 22
South East +15 36 £379 +0.33% 24
North of England -12 35 £450 +12.50% 11
Midlands -28 22 £492 +0.92% 4
North West -2 21 £450 +28.57% 7
West Midlands -27 20 £486 +8.00% 4
North East -5 7 £413 +4.76% 2
Yorkshire -42 7 £316 -31.30% 2
South West -7 4 £419 +4.69% 8
East of England - 4 £375 - 8
East Midlands -18 2 £663 +26.19%
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (9.52%) Confluence
2 13 (5.63%) SAS
3 3 (1.30%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.73%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.87%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.87%) Endur
4 2 (0.87%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.87%) Maximo
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.91%) Azure
2 33 (14.29%) AWS
3 28 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.79%) GitHub
5 12 (5.19%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.90%) SaaS
7 9 (3.90%) Serverless
8 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.60%) GCP
9 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.16%) Sentry
10 5 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.30%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.30%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) DHCP
2 2 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) DSL
3 1 (0.43%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.60%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (2.16%) Big Data
5 5 (2.16%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.73%) Power BI
7 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau
8 2 (0.87%) Metadata
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.43%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (27.71%) JIRA
2 54 (23.38%) Jenkins
3 53 (22.94%) Selenium
4 35 (15.15%) Git
5 30 (12.99%) JUnit
6 28 (12.12%) GitLab
7 26 (11.26%) Postman
8 21 (9.09%) REST Assured
9 19 (8.23%) Cucumber
10 12 (5.19%) Cypress.io
11 11 (4.76%) JMeter
12 9 (3.90%) Appium
12 9 (3.90%) TestNG
13 7 (3.03%) TestRail
14 6 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.60%) Bitbucket
14 6 (2.60%) Charles Proxy
14 6 (2.60%) Gatling
14 6 (2.60%) Katalon Studio
15 5 (2.16%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.84%) Finance
3 34 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.69%) Banking
5 22 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.19%) Front Office
7 10 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Back Office
9 5 (2.16%) Local Government
10 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.30%) Automotive
11 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.87%) Marketing
12 2 (0.87%) Military
12 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (15.15%) Analyst
1 35 (15.15%) Tester
2 32 (13.85%) Senior
3 27 (11.69%) QA Engineer
4 26 (11.26%) Developer
5 25 (10.82%) Test Analyst
6 23 (9.96%) Test Engineer
7 22 (9.52%) Lead
8 15 (6.49%) Test Leader
8 15 (6.49%) Test Manager
8 15 (6.49%) Test Specialist
9 11 (4.76%) Automation Tester
10 9 (3.90%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.46%) Senior Test Analyst
12 7 (3.03%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.60%) Consultant
13 6 (2.60%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.02%) REST
2 22 (9.52%) Playwright
3 17 (7.36%) RESTful
4 16 (6.93%) pytest
5 15 (6.49%) Kafka
6 13 (5.63%) .NET
7 12 (5.19%) SOAP
8 11 (4.76%) Node.js
9 9 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (3.46%) React
11 7 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (3.03%) XML
12 6 (2.60%) Spring
12 6 (2.60%) Web Services
13 5 (2.16%) Hibernate
13 5 (2.16%) Next.js
13 5 (2.16%) WireMock
14 4 (1.73%) gRPC
14 4 (1.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.19%) Derivative
2 12 (5.19%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.03%) Equities
4 5 (2.16%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.73%) AS400
5 4 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.73%) iSeries
5 4 (1.73%) PKI
6 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.30%) FPGA
6 3 (1.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.30%) RISC-V
6 3 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.33%) Linux
2 9 (3.90%) Android
2 9 (3.90%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.90%) Windows
3 8 (3.46%) Unix
4 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.68%) Test Automation
2 121 (52.38%) Agile
3 88 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 72 (31.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 71 (30.74%) Test Strategy
6 68 (29.44%) DevOps
6 68 (29.44%) Test Scripting
7 56 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (22.51%) Defect Management
9 45 (19.48%) Validation
10 44 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
11 43 (18.61%) Integration Testing
12 37 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (13.85%) Test Management
15 31 (13.42%) Scrum
16 30 (12.99%) TDD
17 29 (12.55%) Software Testing
18 28 (12.12%) API Testing
18 28 (12.12%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.48%) Python
2 41 (17.75%) SQL
3 38 (16.45%) Java
4 22 (9.52%) C#
5 19 (8.23%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.90%) Go
7 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.16%) Swift
8 4 (1.73%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) Assembly Language
9 3 (1.30%) Bash
9 3 (1.30%) Perl
9 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.30%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.87%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.69%) Degree
4 26 (11.26%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.30%) PhD
9 2 (0.87%) MCSA
9 2 (0.87%) MCSE
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.87%) PMP
9 2 (0.87%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (39.39%) QA
2 21 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.30%) MiFID
4 3 (1.30%) PSD2
4 3 (1.30%) SEPA
5 2 (0.87%) EMIR
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) IFRS
5 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.87%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (16.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) QEMU
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.03%) HP ALM
3 4 (1.73%) Nessus
4 3 (1.30%) Terraform
5 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (12.12%) Oracle
2 22 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.06%) SAP
4 8 (3.46%) HP
5 7 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.16%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.16%) Murex
6 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.16%) Splunk
7 4 (1.73%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.73%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.73%) IBM
7 4 (1.73%) Optimizely
7 4 (1.73%) Qualys
7 4 (1.73%) Tanium
7 4 (1.73%) Workday
8 3 (1.30%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.30%) VMware
9 2 (0.87%) GoldenSource