Regression Testing Contracts in Reading

Regression Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 77 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 3 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 1.17% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.30% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile £381 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £300 £540
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -44.44% +15.51%
75th Percentile £394 £450 -
90th Percentile - £540 -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £300 £501
% change year-on-year +50.00% -40.15% +13.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in Reading

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in Reading

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in Reading

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft