Regression Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 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 256 283 315
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +96
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 48 62 165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.46% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 109
10th Percentile £284 £357 £313
25th Percentile £378 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £803 £519 £625
90th Percentile £875 £575 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £456 £525
% change year-on-year -1.37% -13.10% +7.14%

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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Regression Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Regression Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP IBP
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) MultiFonds
2 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.08%) SAP SD
2 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.08%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) GitHub
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.42%) Serverless
6 3 (6.25%) BrowserStack
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Cypress.io
2 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) JIRA
3 7 (14.58%) Postman
4 6 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 5 (10.42%) Selenium
6 4 (8.33%) Git
6 4 (8.33%) JMeter
7 3 (6.25%) GitLab
8 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
8 2 (4.17%) TestRail
9 1 (2.08%) Appium
9 1 (2.08%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.08%) JUnit
9 1 (2.08%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.08%) TestNG
9 1 (2.08%) Travis CI
9 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
3 9 (18.75%) Financial Institution
3 9 (18.75%) Front Office
4 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Back Office
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Analyst
1 11 (22.92%) Business Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Front Office Business Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Test Analyst
3 8 (16.67%) Tester
4 6 (12.50%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) Automation Tester
5 5 (10.42%) React Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Test Manager
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Playwright
2 7 (14.58%) React
3 5 (10.42%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.42%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (10.42%) Next.js
3 5 (10.42%) Node.js
3 5 (10.42%) Redux
4 3 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) pytest
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.08%) Kafka
6 1 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Fixed Income
2 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Derivative
3 1 (2.08%) EPoS
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 19 (39.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 15 (31.25%) Manual Testing
5 14 (29.17%) Agile
6 13 (27.08%) Test Scripting
7 10 (20.83%) DevOps
7 10 (20.83%) TDD
8 9 (18.75%) Business Analysis
8 9 (18.75%) Economics
8 9 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (18.75%) Product Management
8 9 (18.75%) Quantitative Research
8 9 (18.75%) Test Strategy
9 7 (14.58%) API Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Performance Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Test Management
10 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
2 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) CEH
3 1 (2.08%) CISSP
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) QA
2 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) GxP
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.08%) Kibana
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) ION Trading
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) SAP
3 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Calypso
6 1 (2.08%) Genesys
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Sparx
6 1 (2.08%) Temenos
6 1 (2.08%) Workday