Regression Testing Contracts in the South East

Regression Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Regression Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Regression Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 166 212
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -44
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 33 58 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.99% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.11% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 40 38
10th Percentile - £225 £336
25th Percentile £300 £300 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £481 £415
Median % change year-on-year +11.69% +15.89% +3.81%
75th Percentile £556 £609 £499
90th Percentile £586 £743 £604
England median daily rate £475 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -13.64% +11.11% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.43
25th Percentile - - £29.21
Median hourly rate - - £42.83
75th Percentile - - £55.87
90th Percentile - - £63.30
England median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Regression Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,713 5,219 6,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.93% 89.44% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,620 4,694
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 220 289
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.11
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.15 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.08 £62.37
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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

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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 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the South East

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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 26 April 2024. 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 +9 16 £388 -12.68% 3
Berkshire -4 14 £300 -40.15% 2
Hampshire +7 9 £538 +19.44% 10
West Sussex - 6 - -
Buckinghamshire +23 2 £475 +38.69% 1
East Sussex +5 1 £300 -57.14% 1
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 11 (33.33%) Apache
1 11 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (27.27%) Confluence
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) BGP
1 11 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (33.33%) MPLS
1 11 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (33.33%) VPN
2 9 (27.27%) DHCP
2 9 (27.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 11 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (12.12%) MS Access
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (69.70%) JIRA
2 11 (33.33%) GitLab
2 11 (33.33%) Robot Framework
2 11 (33.33%) TestRail
3 3 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) Subversion
4 1 (3.03%) Appium
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Military
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Billing
4 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 4 (12.12%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Test Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Integration Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Project Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.03%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Service Operations Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Test Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) REST
2 11 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 11 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 11 (33.33%) SOAP
2 11 (33.33%) YANG
3 3 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 3 (9.09%) gRPC
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
1 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
1 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) Test Scripting
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 14 (42.42%) Scrum
5 13 (39.39%) Performance Testing
5 13 (39.39%) Test Automation
5 13 (39.39%) Unit Testing
6 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 11 (33.33%) Security Testing
6 11 (33.33%) Workflow
7 9 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
8 7 (21.21%) Scenario Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
9 4 (12.12%) Migration
9 4 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Technical Analysis
9 4 (12.12%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) SQL
2 11 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (27.27%) MCSA
2 9 (27.27%) MCSE
2 9 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
4 7 (21.21%) Degree
5 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
2 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) VMware
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle
4 4 (12.12%) Alteryx
4 4 (12.12%) SAP
5 3 (9.09%) CA Agile Central