Regression Testing Contracts in the North of England

Regression Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 190 230
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 -71
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 9 26 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.45% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.49% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £356 £277 -
25th Percentile £406 £285 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £390
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% +7.59%
75th Percentile £472 £556 £491
90th Percentile £481 £639 £538
England median daily rate £469 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -14.77% +11.11% +13.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,052 5,254 6,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.81% 90.62% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 3,656 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 205 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.19 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.20% +3.15%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the North of England

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the North of England

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the North of England

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the North of England

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +17 4 £450 -18.18% 6
North West +5 4 £363 +13.28% 10
North East +17 1 £450 +20.00%
Regression Testing
England

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) TestComplete
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Manager
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
1 1 (11.11%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) OOP
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) API Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
3 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Delphi
2 2 (22.22%) VBScript
3 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
1 2 (22.22%) SAP