Regression Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 278 318 307
Rank change year-on-year +40 -11 +48
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 62 73 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.36% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.43% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 45 101
10th Percentile £264 £313 £275
25th Percentile £313 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £509 £463
Median % change year-on-year -23.80% +9.95% +8.82%
75th Percentile £450 £556 £544
90th Percentile £575 £573 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.20 - -
Median hourly rate £21.40 - -
75th Percentile £21.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +40 29 £395 -26.51% 62
North of England +15 9 £363 -19.44% 40
Scotland +5 8 £363 -9.38% 9
South West +36 7 £550 +2.33% 11
Midlands +17 7 £363 -17.14% 20
West Midlands +6 7 £363 -17.14% 13
North West +17 6 £346 -4.48% 25
Yorkshire +15 2 £450 - 11
East of England +25 1 - - 25
Wales 0 1 £525 +3.24% 17
North East -5 1 £363 -19.44% 5
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (16.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.45%) SAP IBP
3 2 (3.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) AWS
2 4 (6.45%) SaaS
3 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.84%) OCI
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.23%) Boomi
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.23%) PaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.81%) ATM
1 16 (25.81%) Ethernet
1 16 (25.81%) Frame Relay
1 16 (25.81%) GPRS
1 16 (25.81%) GSM
1 16 (25.81%) LAN
1 16 (25.81%) LTE
1 16 (25.81%) MPLS
1 16 (25.81%) SAN
1 16 (25.81%) SDH
1 16 (25.81%) UMTS
1 16 (25.81%) VPN
1 16 (25.81%) WAN
1 16 (25.81%) Wireshark
2 2 (3.23%) DHCP
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.61%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (24.19%) JIRA
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) Selenium
4 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.06%) GitLab
6 4 (6.45%) Postman
6 4 (6.45%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.84%) JMeter
7 3 (4.84%) TestNG
7 3 (4.84%) Travis CI
8 2 (3.23%) JUnit
8 2 (3.23%) Subversion
9 1 (1.61%) ClearCase
9 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.61%) MSTest
9 1 (1.61%) NUnit
9 1 (1.61%) Ranorex
9 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Telecoms
3 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Finance
5 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.45%) Military
7 2 (3.23%) Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) Back Office
8 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.61%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Test Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) IP Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Tester
5 6 (9.68%) Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Test Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Test Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Automation Test Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Senior
8 3 (4.84%) Supply Chain Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) REST
2 5 (8.06%) SOAP
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.45%) CSS
3 4 (6.45%) HTML
3 4 (6.45%) HTML5
3 4 (6.45%) jQuery
4 3 (4.84%) Kafka
5 2 (3.23%) .NET
5 2 (3.23%) Django
5 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.23%) gRPC
5 2 (3.23%) MACH
5 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) JSON
6 1 (1.61%) Playwright
6 1 (1.61%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) EPoS
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Linux
1 17 (27.42%) Unix
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (40.32%) Test Strategy
3 21 (33.87%) Test Automation
4 19 (30.65%) Agile
5 16 (25.81%) Fault Management
5 16 (25.81%) Project Management
5 16 (25.81%) Test Scripting
6 13 (20.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.13%) Performance Testing
8 8 (12.90%) Integration Testing
9 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.29%) DevOps
9 7 (11.29%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (11.29%) Functional Testing
10 6 (9.68%) Migration
10 6 (9.68%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.06%) Python
5 3 (4.84%) Bash
5 3 (4.84%) Go
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) R
7 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) ISTQB
2 18 (29.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 16 (25.81%) CCNP
3 16 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (25.81%) ISEB
4 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
5 9 (14.52%) Degree
6 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
7 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.84%) CEH
8 3 (4.84%) CISSP
9 2 (3.23%) MCSA
9 2 (3.23%) MCSE
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.61%) CBAP
10 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (29.03%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.84%) Kibana
3 1 (1.61%) Graphite
3 1 (1.61%) OPNET
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.81%) Cisco
2 16 (25.81%) Juniper
3 6 (9.68%) SAP
3 6 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Snow
5 3 (4.84%) HP
6 2 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.23%) VMware
7 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint