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 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 117 157 157
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 +50
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 29 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 0.59% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.70% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 36
10th Percentile £290 £300 £263
25th Percentile £313 £341 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £538 £494
Median % change year-on-year -26.51% +8.86% +9.72%
75th Percentile £450 £556 £609
90th Percentile - £598 £763
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 2,731 4,596 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.24% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 2,676 3,476
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £395 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 439 218
10th Percentile £13.15 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.34 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.56% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.87 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 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 20 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 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
Thames Valley +42 20 £450 +16.13% 18
Berkshire +38 18 £450 +50.00% 10
Hampshire +25 5 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +14 2 £385 -18.95% 3
West Sussex +13 2 £279 - 7
Surrey - 2 £325 - 3
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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (13.79%) SAP IBP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
1 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
1 1 (3.45%) GitHub
1 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.45%) OCI
1 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) ATM
1 16 (55.17%) Ethernet
1 16 (55.17%) Frame Relay
1 16 (55.17%) GPRS
1 16 (55.17%) GSM
1 16 (55.17%) LAN
1 16 (55.17%) LTE
1 16 (55.17%) MPLS
1 16 (55.17%) SAN
1 16 (55.17%) SDH
1 16 (55.17%) UMTS
1 16 (55.17%) VPN
1 16 (55.17%) WAN
1 16 (55.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.45%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Subversion
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 16 (55.17%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) IP Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Test Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Consultant
4 5 (17.24%) IP Network Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Network Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Lead
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Supply Chain Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) IP Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Specialist
8 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
1 3 (10.34%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.90%) gRPC
2 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
1 16 (55.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Test Strategy
2 16 (55.17%) Fault Management
2 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (55.17%) Project Management
3 5 (17.24%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Business Transformation
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
4 4 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Agile
5 3 (10.34%) BDD
5 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Microservices
5 3 (10.34%) TDD
5 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Kanban
6 2 (6.90%) Scrum
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) Go
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) CCNP
1 16 (55.17%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (55.17%) ISEB
1 16 (55.17%) ISTQB
1 16 (55.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (55.17%) Cisco
2 16 (55.17%) Juniper
3 5 (17.24%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle