Regression Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Regression Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 315 413
Rank change year-on-year +35 +98 -60
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 61 143 217
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.60% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.67% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 95 160
10th Percentile £358 £291 £305
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £497 £613 £573
90th Percentile £524 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £456 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -13.10% +9.09% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +294.74% -63.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Regression Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Regression Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing.

Regression Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Regression Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regression Testing.

Regression Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
2 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (4.92%) Azure API Management
4 3 (4.92%) dbt
4 3 (4.92%) GitHub
4 3 (4.92%) Serverless
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.28%) OCI
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DHCP
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 9 (14.75%) Selenium
3 6 (9.84%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) Postman
5 3 (4.92%) JUnit
5 3 (4.92%) TestNG
6 2 (3.28%) Appium
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.28%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (3.28%) JMeter
6 2 (3.28%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.28%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (3.28%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.28%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.64%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Finance
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.56%) Retail
7 3 (4.92%) Military
7 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.28%) Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Billing
8 2 (3.28%) Electronics
8 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.28%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.64%) German Language
9 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Polish Language
9 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Test Analyst
3 12 (19.67%) Test Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Test Manager
5 6 (9.84%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Tester
7 4 (6.56%) C++ Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead
8 3 (4.92%) SAP Manager
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Developer in Test
9 2 (3.28%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Swagger
2 5 (8.20%) REST
3 4 (6.56%) .NET
3 4 (6.56%) CSS
3 4 (6.56%) HTML
3 4 (6.56%) JSON
3 4 (6.56%) XML
3 4 (6.56%) YAML
4 3 (4.92%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (4.92%) PySpark
4 3 (4.92%) Visualforce
5 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.28%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.64%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.64%) React
6 1 (1.64%) RESTful
6 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.92%) PKI
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.64%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Test Automation
2 27 (44.26%) Test Scripting
3 20 (32.79%) User Acceptance Testing
4 18 (29.51%) Unit Testing
5 15 (24.59%) Agile
5 15 (24.59%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (22.95%) Software Testing
7 13 (21.31%) DevOps
7 13 (21.31%) Test Strategy
8 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
8 9 (14.75%) OO
9 8 (13.11%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.11%) Test Management
10 7 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (11.48%) Functional Testing
10 7 (11.48%) Non-Functional Testing
11 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (9.84%) SDLC
11 6 (9.84%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) Java
3 9 (14.75%) Python
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.56%) C++
6 3 (4.92%) Apex Code
6 3 (4.92%) C#
6 3 (4.92%) SOQL
7 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.64%) VB
8 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.92%) MCSA
3 3 (4.92%) MCSE
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.28%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.64%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) SAP
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) VMware
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.92%) HP
6 2 (3.28%) Ariba
7 1 (1.64%) Databricks
7 1 (1.64%) Perfecto Mobile