Regression Testing Contracts

Regression Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 354 446
Rank change year-on-year -48 +92 -22
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 183 389 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.74% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 271 345
10th Percentile £320 £313 £308
25th Percentile £363 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £556 £660 £613
90th Percentile £625 £825 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £469 £425
% change year-on-year +7.57% +10.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.93
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £41.88
90th Percentile - - £61.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -63.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 May 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
England -63 142 £463 -15.91% 72
London -24 77 £425 -29.17% 27
UK excluding London +2 72 £504 +7.57% 47
Work from Home +22 56 £400 -15.79% 37
South East -8 32 £538 +10.26% 13
South West +7 13 £538 +19.44% 8
Scotland +40 9 £400 -15.79% 1
North of England +2 9 £450 +12.50% 12
Midlands +24 4 £438 -12.50% 4
West Midlands +18 4 £438 -12.50% 4
Yorkshire +15 4 £450 -19.28% 2
North West +10 4 £363 +2.11% 10
Wales - 3 £509 - 2
East of England +3 2 - - 7
North East +12 1 £450 +20.00%

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (13.11%) Confluence
2 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (7.65%) Apache
4 12 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Windchill
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.19%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (2.19%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (2.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.64%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.64%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Endur
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.57%) Azure
2 16 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (7.65%) AWS
4 10 (5.46%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.28%) GitHub
6 5 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.73%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (2.73%) dbt
6 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.73%) Serverless
7 4 (2.19%) OCI
8 3 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.64%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.09%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.09%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.55%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.74%) DHCP
1 16 (8.74%) DNS
2 12 (6.56%) BGP
2 12 (6.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (6.56%) MPLS
2 12 (6.56%) VPN
3 11 (6.01%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.09%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.65%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.65%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.83%) Power BI
3 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.19%) MS Access
5 4 (2.19%) Tableau
6 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.64%) MySQL
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.64%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.55%) QlikView
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (30.60%) JIRA
2 24 (13.11%) Selenium
3 18 (9.84%) Git
4 13 (7.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.10%) TestRail
5 12 (6.56%) Cypress.io
5 12 (6.56%) GitLab
5 12 (6.56%) Robot Framework
6 11 (6.01%) Postman
7 10 (5.46%) SpecFlow
8 8 (4.37%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.28%) JUnit
9 6 (3.28%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.19%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.19%) TestNG
11 3 (1.64%) Appium
11 3 (1.64%) JMeter
11 3 (1.64%) Subversion
11 3 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.57%) Finance
4 16 (8.74%) Military
5 12 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.46%) Banking
7 7 (3.83%) Retail
8 5 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.19%) Billing
9 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Legal
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) German Language
12 1 (0.55%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (19.67%) Test Engineer
2 34 (18.58%) Tester
3 31 (16.94%) Analyst
4 25 (13.66%) Test Analyst
5 18 (9.84%) Test Manager
6 16 (8.74%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (8.74%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) QA Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Developer
9 13 (7.10%) Lead
10 11 (6.01%) Automation Tester
11 10 (5.46%) Senior
12 9 (4.92%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.92%) Test Leader
13 7 (3.83%) Consultant
13 7 (3.83%) Manual Tester
14 6 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.28%) Senior Test Engineer
15 5 (2.73%) AWS Data Engineer
15 5 (2.73%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.02%) REST
2 15 (8.20%) SOAP
3 12 (6.56%) NETCONF
3 12 (6.56%) RESTCONF
4 11 (6.01%) .NET
4 11 (6.01%) YANG
5 8 (4.37%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.73%) Gherkin
6 5 (2.73%) JSON
6 5 (2.73%) Next.js
6 5 (2.73%) Node.js
6 5 (2.73%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.73%) PySpark
6 5 (2.73%) React
6 5 (2.73%) Redux
7 4 (2.19%) ADO
7 4 (2.19%) Playwright
7 4 (2.19%) XML
8 3 (1.64%) Kafka
8 3 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.74%) PKI
2 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.19%) e-Health
4 4 (2.19%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.64%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.64%) NHS
5 3 (1.64%) PACS
5 3 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.55%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.55%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.55%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.02%) Windows
2 16 (8.74%) Windows Server
2 16 (8.74%) Windows Server 2012
3 9 (4.92%) Linux
4 6 (3.28%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (55.74%) Test Automation
2 88 (48.09%) Agile
3 53 (28.96%) Test Scripting
4 49 (26.78%) CI/CD
5 37 (20.22%) Performance Testing
5 37 (20.22%) Test Strategy
6 36 (19.67%) Scrum
6 36 (19.67%) Unit Testing
7 32 (17.49%) Scenario Testing
7 32 (17.49%) Software Testing
8 31 (16.94%) Integration Testing
8 31 (16.94%) User Acceptance Testing
9 24 (13.11%) DevOps
9 24 (13.11%) Functional Testing
10 22 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (11.48%) Defect Management
11 21 (11.48%) Test Planning
12 19 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (9.84%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.42%) SQL
2 33 (18.03%) Python
3 17 (9.29%) C#
4 16 (8.74%) Java
5 12 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.73%) C++
8 3 (1.64%) C
8 3 (1.64%) Go
8 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.64%) VBScript
9 2 (1.09%) Delphi
9 2 (1.09%) ProC
9 2 (1.09%) Swift
10 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.55%) R
10 1 (0.55%) SOQL
10 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (8.74%) Degree
4 16 (8.74%) MCSA
4 16 (8.74%) MCSE
4 16 (8.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.37%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.64%) ISEB
9 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.09%) PMP
10 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (21.86%) QA
2 8 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.73%) HL7
4 4 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.19%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.64%) JTAG
6 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.55%) GRC
7 1 (0.55%) GxP
7 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (9.29%) Docker
2 16 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.92%) Terraform
2 7 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.09%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.48%) Oracle
3 18 (9.84%) VMware
4 16 (8.74%) SAP
5 6 (3.28%) HP
6 4 (2.19%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.19%) Ariba
7 3 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.64%) PTC
7 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.64%) Siemens
8 1 (0.55%) Apple
8 1 (0.55%) Databricks
8 1 (0.55%) Informatica
8 1 (0.55%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.55%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.55%) Remedy
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow