Regression Testing Job Trends in the City of London

Regression Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 125 161
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 +35
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 8 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.74% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.77% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £44,000 £52,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £45,125 £53,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £89,000 £61,750
Central London median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% -20.00% +50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Regression Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,048 1,820 2,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.32% 95.74% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,228 1,402 2,040
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,188 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £113,875
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Regression Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Regression Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Regression Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the City of London

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 3 (37.50%) TestRail
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) Appium
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 3 (37.50%) UAT Tester
3 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) API Testing
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Test Management
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Smoke Testing
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 1 (12.50%) SDLC
7 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ACCA
1 1 (12.50%) CIMA
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle