Regression Testing Job Trends in the South East

Regression Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 271 266
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 24 31 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 16
10th Percentile £52,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £55,625
90th Percentile £70,625 £55,000 £65,650
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -11.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,270 7,935 7,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.17% 88.05% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,919 3,791 5,460
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

Regression Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Regression Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the South East

Regression Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley +16 14 £57,500 +15.00% 21
Berkshire +3 12 £63,750 +27.50% 9
Hampshire +27 3 - - 6
West Sussex -4 3 £57,500 +21.05% 5
Surrey +10 2 £67,500 -3.57% 8
East Sussex +4 1 £52,500 +23.53% 5
Kent - 1 - - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 £57,500 - 5
Regression Testing
England

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Anypoint
2 2 (8.33%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 9 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (4.17%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) Boomi
4 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Workato
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) JIRA
2 9 (37.50%) eCATT
3 4 (16.67%) TestRail
4 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (8.33%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (8.33%) Fiddler
5 2 (8.33%) GitLab
5 2 (8.33%) Postman
5 2 (8.33%) Robot Framework
5 2 (8.33%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) Git
6 1 (4.17%) mountebank
6 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 9 (37.50%) Marketing
2 9 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Legal
5 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Advertising
6 2 (8.33%) Law
6 2 (8.33%) Military
7 1 (4.17%) Aviation
7 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
7 1 (4.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
1 10 (41.67%) Test Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Manual Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Android
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 13 (54.17%) End-to-End Testing
3 13 (54.17%) Manual Testing
3 13 (54.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 13 (54.17%) Test Management
4 11 (45.83%) ERP
4 11 (45.83%) Test Scripting
5 10 (41.67%) Integration Testing
5 10 (41.67%) Risk Management
5 10 (41.67%) Roadmaps
6 9 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
6 9 (37.50%) Programme Management
6 9 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (37.50%) Source to Pay
6 9 (37.50%) Visualisation
6 9 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (33.33%) Agile
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MCSA
3 1 (4.17%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) HP ALM
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Nessus
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) SAP
2 9 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Dell
4 2 (8.33%) Epicor
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 2 (8.33%) IFS
4 2 (8.33%) Infor
4 2 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) Jitterbit
4 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (8.33%) Roku
4 2 (8.33%) SnapLogic
4 2 (8.33%) Software AG
4 2 (8.33%) Talend
4 2 (8.33%) TIBCO
4 2 (8.33%) Workday
5 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) VMware