Regression Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Regression Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 82 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 9 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.91% 0.17% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.20% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £290
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +72.41% -25.16%
75th Percentile £475 - £375
90th Percentile £550 - £425
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 889 1,019 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.71% 87.39% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 610 1,064
10th Percentile £311 £313 £278
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £689 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 61
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.44 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -2.50%
75th Percentile £35.50 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in Manchester

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in Manchester

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (77.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (55.56%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) SAP Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) SAP Test Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Manager
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Defect Management
1 7 (77.78%) End-to-End Testing
1 7 (77.78%) Test Management
1 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
1 7 (77.78%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (55.56%) SAP Implementation
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Business Transformation
4 3 (33.33%) Coaching
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP ALM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) VMware