Regression Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Regression Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 129
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 8 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.24% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £219 £369 £456
25th Percentile £270 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -12.50% +26.58%
75th Percentile £480 £488 -
90th Percentile £537 £510 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the West Midlands

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the West Midlands

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the West Midlands

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the West Midlands

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +18 5 - - 6
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 8
Regression Testing
England

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Boomi
2 2 (25.00%) OCI
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JMeter
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) TestNG
2 3 (37.50%) Travis CI
3 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (25.00%) QA Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
1 2 (25.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) SIEM
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) API Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (37.50%) Test Management
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) R
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CEH
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle