Regression Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 317 369
Rank change year-on-year -10 +52 -48
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 71 123 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.60% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 84 105
10th Percentile £325 £285 £285
25th Percentile £413 £354 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £488
90th Percentile £575 £650 £538
UK median daily rate £463 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -13.95% +13.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £34.25
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +294.74% -63.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,499 20,331 27,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.01% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,272 13,870 19,174
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £694 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,167 1,259 1,359
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £61.80 £63.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Regression Testing in the UK excluding London

Regression Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
South East -13 22 £538 +7.50% 7
South West -1 20 £538 +10.26% 3
North of England +10 10 £450 +12.50% 5
Scotland +35 9 £400 -15.79% 6
West Midlands +11 6 £475 -5.00% 5
Midlands +6 6 £475 -8.43% 6
Yorkshire +10 5 £463 -17.04% 4
Wales +16 3 £509 -21.77%
North East +12 3 £425 -
North West -4 2 £363 +3.57% 1
East of England -8 1 - - 1
Regression Testing
UK

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (23.94%) Confluence
2 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (7.04%) Apache
4 4 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Trello
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
1 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.54%) DHCP
1 16 (22.54%) DNS
2 4 (5.63%) BGP
2 4 (5.63%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (5.63%) MPLS
2 4 (5.63%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (5.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.63%) MariaDB
3 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.63%) MS Access
3 4 (5.63%) MySQL
3 4 (5.63%) Power BI
3 4 (5.63%) Tableau
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (39.44%) JIRA
2 11 (15.49%) Selenium
3 9 (12.68%) GitLab
4 6 (8.45%) Git
5 5 (7.04%) Postman
6 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.63%) Robot Framework
6 4 (5.63%) TestRail
7 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
7 3 (4.23%) Subversion
8 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.82%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (2.82%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.82%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.41%) Appium
9 1 (1.41%) Gatling
9 1 (1.41%) JUnit
9 1 (1.41%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.41%) Ranorex
General
1 31 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Military
4 12 (16.90%) Finance
5 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.45%) Billing
6 6 (8.45%) Retail
7 4 (5.63%) Legal
7 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.82%) Banking
9 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.41%) Back Office
10 1 (1.41%) Electronics
10 1 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Test Engineer
2 17 (23.94%) Tester
3 14 (19.72%) Analyst
3 14 (19.72%) Integration Engineer
3 14 (19.72%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Test Analyst
5 8 (11.27%) Automation Tester
6 6 (8.45%) Test Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Project Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.23%) Junior
9 3 (4.23%) Junior Tester
9 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.23%) SAP Manager
9 3 (4.23%) SAP Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) REST
2 4 (5.63%) NETCONF
2 4 (5.63%) RESTCONF
2 4 (5.63%) SOAP
2 4 (5.63%) YANG
3 3 (4.23%) JSON
3 3 (4.23%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (4.23%) RESTful
3 3 (4.23%) Swagger
3 3 (4.23%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.82%) ADO
4 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.82%) gRPC
4 2 (2.82%) Kafka
4 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.82%) Playwright
4 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
5 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) PKI
2 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.63%) e-Health
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Windows
2 16 (22.54%) Windows Server
2 16 (22.54%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (7.04%) Linux
3 5 (7.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) Agile
2 38 (53.52%) Test Scripting
3 35 (49.30%) Test Automation
4 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
5 18 (25.35%) Scrum
6 17 (23.94%) Critical Thinking
7 15 (21.13%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (19.72%) Scenario Testing
9 13 (18.31%) Test Strategy
10 11 (15.49%) Performance Testing
10 11 (15.49%) Test Planning
11 10 (14.08%) Software Testing
12 9 (12.68%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
13 8 (11.27%) Defect Management
13 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (11.27%) Unit Testing
14 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
14 7 (9.86%) DevOps
14 7 (9.86%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) Java
3 9 (12.68%) Python
4 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Apex Code
6 3 (4.23%) SOQL
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) ProC
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (22.54%) MCSA
4 16 (22.54%) MCSE
4 16 (22.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (9.86%) Degree
6 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) JTAG
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) Active Directory
1 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.82%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.94%) VMware
3 12 (16.90%) Oracle
4 8 (11.27%) SAP
5 4 (5.63%) Alteryx
5 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.82%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.82%) HP