Regression Testing Contracts in England

Regression Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 339 442
Rank change year-on-year -67 +103 -57
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 143 342 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 239 267
10th Percentile £313 £309 £308
25th Percentile £363 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +11.11% +11.24%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £638
90th Percentile £625 £828 £793
UK median daily rate £456 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -13.10% +8.25% +12.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile - - £25.00
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.45
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in England

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -18 78 £425 -29.17% 26
South East -5 32 £538 +10.26% 13
South West +8 13 £538 +19.44% 8
North of England +14 9 £450 +12.50% 11
Midlands +17 4 £438 -12.50% 5
Yorkshire +14 4 £450 -19.28% 2
West Midlands +13 4 £438 -12.50% 5
North West +9 4 £363 +2.11% 9
East of England +10 2 - - 7
North East +15 1 £450 +20.00%
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.78%) Confluence
2 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (9.79%) Apache
4 12 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Windchill
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (2.10%) ENOVIA
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.10%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.70%) Endur
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.29%) Azure
2 14 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.80%) AWS
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.40%) OCI
5 2 (1.40%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.40%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.70%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.70%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.70%) SaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.19%) DHCP
1 16 (11.19%) DNS
2 12 (8.39%) BGP
2 12 (8.39%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (8.39%) MPLS
2 12 (8.39%) VPN
3 11 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.79%) MongoDB
2 14 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.20%) Power BI
4 5 (3.50%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (2.80%) MS Access
5 4 (2.80%) Tableau
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) Metadata
8 1 (0.70%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.70%) QlikView
8 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (32.17%) JIRA
2 16 (11.19%) Selenium
3 13 (9.09%) TestRail
4 12 (8.39%) GitLab
4 12 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.39%) Robot Framework
5 10 (6.99%) Git
5 10 (6.99%) SpecFlow
6 8 (5.59%) Cypress.io
6 8 (5.59%) Postman
7 5 (3.50%) JUnit
8 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.80%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.80%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.10%) Subversion
9 3 (2.10%) TestNG
9 3 (2.10%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.40%) TestComplete
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.69%) Finance
4 16 (11.19%) Military
5 10 (6.99%) Banking
6 6 (4.20%) Retail
7 5 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.80%) Billing
8 4 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.80%) Legal
8 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.40%) Electronics
10 2 (1.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 28 (19.58%) Tester
3 22 (15.38%) Analyst
4 16 (11.19%) Integration Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Test Analyst
4 16 (11.19%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) Test Manager
6 13 (9.09%) Developer
7 12 (8.39%) QA Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Lead
8 10 (6.99%) Senior
9 9 (6.29%) Network Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Automation Tester
11 6 (4.20%) Manual Tester
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Test Leader
12 5 (3.50%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.50%) React Developer
12 5 (3.50%) Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.80%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.38%) REST
2 15 (10.49%) SOAP
3 12 (8.39%) NETCONF
3 12 (8.39%) RESTCONF
4 11 (7.69%) YANG
5 10 (6.99%) .NET
6 8 (5.59%) GraphQL
7 5 (3.50%) JSON
7 5 (3.50%) Next.js
7 5 (3.50%) Node.js
7 5 (3.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (3.50%) React
7 5 (3.50%) Redux
8 4 (2.80%) ADO
8 4 (2.80%) XML
9 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.10%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.10%) Kafka
9 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) PKI
2 5 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.80%) e-Health
3 4 (2.80%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.10%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.10%) NHS
4 3 (2.10%) PACS
4 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.70%) Solar Panel
6 1 (0.70%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.99%) Windows
2 16 (11.19%) Windows Server
2 16 (11.19%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (4.20%) Linux
3 6 (4.20%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (53.15%) Agile
2 75 (52.45%) Test Automation
3 43 (30.07%) Test Scripting
4 35 (24.48%) CI/CD
5 32 (22.38%) Scrum
6 31 (21.68%) Performance Testing
7 29 (20.28%) Unit Testing
8 28 (19.58%) Test Strategy
9 27 (18.88%) Integration Testing
9 27 (18.88%) Scenario Testing
10 25 (17.48%) Software Testing
11 23 (16.08%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (15.38%) Functional Testing
13 19 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (13.29%) Test Planning
14 16 (11.19%) Critical Thinking
14 16 (11.19%) TDD
15 15 (10.49%) DevOps
15 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (9.79%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.57%) SQL
2 27 (18.88%) Python
3 16 (11.19%) C#
4 13 (9.09%) Java
5 6 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.50%) C++
6 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.10%) C
7 3 (2.10%) Go
7 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.40%) Delphi
8 2 (1.40%) ProC
8 2 (1.40%) Swift
8 2 (1.40%) VBScript
9 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (11.19%) MCSA
4 16 (11.19%) MCSE
4 16 (11.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (10.49%) Degree
6 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.50%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.10%) ISEB
10 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.88%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.50%) HL7
3 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.80%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (2.10%) JTAG
5 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (11.89%) Docker
2 16 (11.19%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 27 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.59%) VMware
3 15 (10.49%) Oracle
4 11 (7.69%) SAP
5 4 (2.80%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.10%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.10%) HP
6 3 (2.10%) PTC
6 3 (2.10%) Siemens
7 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) Apple
8 1 (0.70%) Informatica
8 1 (0.70%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.70%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.70%) Remedy
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow