Regression Testing Contracts in the South East

Regression Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 132 172 165
Rank change year-on-year +40 -7 +43
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 27 33 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.59% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.70% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 39
10th Percentile £318 - £225
25th Percentile £377 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +10.26% +17.40%
75th Percentile - £556 £619
90th Percentile - £586 £748
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the South East

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the South East

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the South East

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the South East

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +49 22 £450 +16.13% 12
Berkshire +36 19 £450 +50.00% 5
Hampshire +20 3 - - 3
Buckinghamshire +17 3 £395 -16.84% 4
Surrey - 2 £325 - 4
Regression Testing
England

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.41%) SAP IBP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
1 1 (3.70%) GitHub
1 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.70%) OCI
1 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (62.96%) MPLS
1 17 (62.96%) VPN
2 16 (59.26%) ATM
2 16 (59.26%) Ethernet
2 16 (59.26%) Frame Relay
2 16 (59.26%) GPRS
2 16 (59.26%) GSM
2 16 (59.26%) LAN
2 16 (59.26%) LTE
2 16 (59.26%) SAN
2 16 (59.26%) SDH
2 16 (59.26%) UMTS
2 16 (59.26%) WAN
2 16 (59.26%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.70%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
2 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (59.26%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) IP Engineer
1 15 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IP Network Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) IP Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) IP Network Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Network Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) HR Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Manual Test Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Supply Chain Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.70%) RESTCONF
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Linux
1 17 (62.96%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (59.26%) Fault Management
3 16 (59.26%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
4 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Analytics
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.41%) Business Transformation
6 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.41%) Performance Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Test Assurance
6 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Workflow
7 1 (3.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) ABAP
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Go
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (59.26%) CCNP
1 16 (59.26%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (59.26%) ISEB
1 16 (59.26%) ISTQB
1 16 (59.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (62.96%) Cisco
3 16 (59.26%) Juniper
4 4 (14.81%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle