Regression Testing Contracts in the North of England

Regression Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 175 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 +47
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 9 9 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.23% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 23
10th Percentile £264 £356 £285
25th Percentile £316 £406 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +12.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £450 £472 £561
90th Percentile £455 £481 £635
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,972 3,945 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.65% 85.39% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,422 3,502
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
North West +17 6 £346 -4.48% 25
Yorkshire +15 2 £450 - 11
North East -5 1 £363 -19.44% 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Games
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
3 4 (44.44%) Defect Management
3 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Test Management
4 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) ITSM
5 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP