Regression Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Regression Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 602 490 502
Rank change year-on-year -112 +12 -42
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 313 589 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.61% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 223 259 496
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.94% +10.74% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Regression Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -111 236 £50,000 -4.94% 48
England -111 233 £52,500 -8.70% 68
Work from Home +30 132 £52,500 -6.67% 34
London +5 63 £52,500 -12.50% 23
Scotland -33 61 £38,500 -30.00% 1
South East -67 55 £57,500 - 13
North of England -8 38 £40,000 -21.95% 11
West Midlands +11 29 £50,000 +7.53% 5
Midlands -9 29 £50,000 +26.58% 5
Yorkshire +57 27 £42,500 -46.88% 2
South West -19 25 £53,750 +7.50% 8
East of England -15 20 £45,600 -27.04% 7
North West -18 10 £39,500 -12.22% 9
Wales +1 8 £65,000 +116.67% 3
North East -10 1 £38,500 -14.44%

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.64%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (19.17%) Azure
2 37 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (8.31%) AWS
4 17 (5.43%) SaaS
5 12 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.88%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.60%) GitHub
8 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.60%) PaaS
9 2 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.64%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.64%) GCP
9 2 (0.64%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.32%) Serverless
10 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.75%) DSL
2 4 (1.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Multicast
3 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.07%) Data Lake
3 18 (5.75%) Big Data
3 18 (5.75%) DB2
3 18 (5.75%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.75%) Tableau
4 5 (1.60%) Redis
5 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) Metadata
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (20.77%) JIRA
2 62 (19.81%) Git
3 50 (15.97%) Selenium
4 26 (8.31%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.35%) Postman
6 19 (6.07%) JMeter
7 17 (5.43%) Jenkins
8 16 (5.11%) Cucumber
8 16 (5.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (3.51%) MSTest
10 10 (3.19%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.88%) Gradle
11 9 (2.88%) Maven
12 7 (2.24%) Appium
12 7 (2.24%) TestRail
13 6 (1.92%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.92%) GitLab
13 6 (1.92%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.92%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.92%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (47.28%) Social Skills
2 85 (27.16%) Finance
3 81 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (11.18%) Marketing
6 32 (10.22%) Law
7 23 (7.35%) Retail
8 19 (6.07%) Banking
8 19 (6.07%) Investment Banking
9 18 (5.75%) Financial Institution
10 16 (5.11%) Electronics
11 10 (3.19%) Police
12 7 (2.24%) Games
13 6 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.60%) Local Government
15 4 (1.28%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.28%) Legal
15 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (18.53%) Test Engineer
2 56 (17.89%) Analyst
2 56 (17.89%) Senior
3 46 (14.70%) Developer
4 43 (13.74%) Tester
5 39 (12.46%) Test Analyst
6 23 (7.35%) Senior Developer
6 23 (7.35%) Software Test Engineer
7 21 (6.71%) QA Engineer
8 19 (6.07%) Software Tester
9 18 (5.75%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.75%) Software Engineering Director
9 18 (5.75%) Test Manager
10 16 (5.11%) Lead
11 15 (4.79%) QA Analyst
12 14 (4.47%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.15%) Senior Test Engineer
14 12 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.88%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.88%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.53%) Kafka
2 48 (15.34%) REST
3 46 (14.70%) Web Services
4 40 (12.78%) RabbitMQ
5 37 (11.82%) GraphQL
5 37 (11.82%) gRPC
6 17 (5.43%) React
7 16 (5.11%) HTML
7 16 (5.11%) Playwright
8 13 (4.15%) Spring
9 10 (3.19%) CSS
10 9 (2.88%) Ext JS
10 9 (2.88%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.56%) .NET
11 8 (2.56%) Node.js
12 7 (2.24%) Gherkin
12 7 (2.24%) XML
13 6 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (1.60%) WebdriverIO
15 4 (1.28%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.70%) Product Ownership
2 27 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.67%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.35%) Management Information System
5 20 (6.39%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.51%) IoT
7 9 (2.88%) FMCG
7 9 (2.88%) Market Risk
8 7 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.60%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.28%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.28%) NHS
11 3 (0.96%) Robotics
12 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.64%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.03%) Linux
1 22 (7.03%) Windows
2 4 (1.28%) AIX
3 2 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (58.79%) Agile
2 180 (57.51%) Test Automation
3 156 (49.84%) Software Testing
4 92 (29.39%) CI/CD
5 85 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (24.60%) Test Scripting
7 74 (23.64%) Continuous Integration
8 73 (23.32%) Software Engineering
8 73 (23.32%) User Acceptance Testing
9 70 (22.36%) Functional Testing
10 68 (21.73%) DevOps
10 68 (21.73%) SDLC
11 61 (19.49%) Test Strategy
12 59 (18.85%) TDD
13 56 (17.89%) Computer Science
13 56 (17.89%) Performance Testing
14 55 (17.57%) Manual Testing
15 54 (17.25%) Microservices
16 52 (16.61%) Continuous Deployment
17 47 (15.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.32%) SQL
2 64 (20.45%) Java
3 63 (20.13%) Python
4 50 (15.97%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.14%) Go
6 26 (8.31%) C#
7 18 (5.75%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.75%) Scala
8 13 (4.15%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.60%) C
10 4 (1.28%) C++
10 4 (1.28%) Groovy
10 4 (1.28%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.64%) PHP
11 2 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 92 (29.39%) Degree
2 50 (15.97%) ISTQB
3 49 (15.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (7.99%) ISEB
5 17 (5.43%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.60%) CAPM
8 5 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.60%) PMP
9 4 (1.28%) CIPD
9 4 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.28%) PhD
10 3 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.96%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (41.21%) QA
2 20 (6.39%) SLA
3 7 (2.24%) GDPR
4 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) JTAG
6 2 (0.64%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (14.38%) Docker
2 14 (4.47%) Firmware
3 10 (3.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.60%) Grafana
2 5 (1.60%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.60%) Kibana
3 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.32%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 41 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.39%) Databricks
3 19 (6.07%) Oracle
4 18 (5.75%) Alteryx
4 18 (5.75%) Cognos
4 18 (5.75%) Sybase
5 13 (4.15%) Google
6 9 (2.88%) SAP
6 9 (2.88%) TOWER Software
7 7 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.60%) HP
9 5 (1.60%) Splunk
10 4 (1.28%) VMware
11 3 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.96%) Conga
11 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.64%) AVEVA
13 1 (0.32%) iManage
13 1 (0.32%) Intapp