Regression Testing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Regression Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.40% 0.79% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 0.88% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £346 £554 £218
25th Percentile £352 £616 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £738 £348
Median % change year-on-year -43.22% +111.93% -
75th Percentile £492 £866 £432
90th Percentile £515 £931 £480
Wales median daily rate £419 £738 £348
% change year-on-year -43.22% +111.93% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 226 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.44% 88.98% 80.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 160 218
10th Percentile £250 £185 £143
25th Percentile £305 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £543 £588
90th Percentile £653 £626 £655
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 25 21
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.08 £20.12 £15.20
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.50 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.79% +20.54%
75th Percentile £34.21 £41.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £59.75 £45.00 £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £22.25 £19.17
% change year-on-year -5.62% +16.07% +1.89%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Regression Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in South Wales

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Regression Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in South Wales

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Regression Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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
Cardiff +1 10 £419 -43.22% 4
Regression Testing
Wales

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Quality Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) NHS
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Kanban
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Defect Management
3 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (40.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 4 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Google