Regression Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Regression Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 122 145
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 +53
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £254 £356 £428
25th Percentile £356 £378 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +35.48%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £616
90th Percentile £690 £545 £666
England median daily rate £450 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.21% +7.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,158 2,158 2,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.69% 81.19% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,471 1,863
10th Percentile £223 £275 £254
25th Percentile £356 £371 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £649 £713 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 100 79
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.74 £13.59
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £20.24
Median hourly rate £20.83 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -32.73% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the Midlands

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Midlands -4 8 £363 -19.44% 11
East Midlands - 2 £663 - 7
Regression Testing
England

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Boomi
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (30.00%) JMeter
3 3 (30.00%) Postman
3 3 (30.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 3 (30.00%) TestNG
3 3 (30.00%) Travis CI
4 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
4 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) HR Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) MACH
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (30.00%) DevOps
6 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (30.00%) SIEM
6 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (30.00%) CEH
3 3 (30.00%) CISSP
4 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (20.00%) PMP
5 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) SAP