Regression Testing Job Trends

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 515 565
Rank change year-on-year -37 +50 -67
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 223 164 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 136 98 177
10th Percentile £34,938 £32,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regression Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 16 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 19 August 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
England -36 199 £52,500 -0.94% 184
UK excluding London -34 149 £52,500 +11.70% 131
Work from Home -31 72 £52,500 +2.44% 65
London -36 59 £65,000 +8.33% 80
South East -27 44 £52,500 -22.22% 34
North of England -35 33 £50,000 +6.38% 32
South West -46 25 £44,000 -1.12% 16
Midlands -26 22 £55,000 +46.67% 13
North West -10 17 £42,500 -9.57% 23
East of England -12 15 £46,250 -26.00% 18
West Midlands -20 14 £51,250 +41.38% 10
Scotland -2 8 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East Midlands -14 8 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Yorkshire -24 8 £52,500 +72.13% 4
North East -55 8 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Wales -57 3 £72,500 +12.84% 3

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (2.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.79%) Simulink
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.63%) Azure
2 49 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.90%) AWS
4 18 (8.07%) GCP
5 13 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (5.38%) SaaS
7 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.04%) Serverless
9 8 (3.59%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (3.14%) BrowserStack
11 5 (2.24%) GitHub
11 5 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
14 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
14 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.35%) HTTP
2 3 (1.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
1 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.35%) Power BI
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (19.28%) JIRA
2 34 (15.25%) Selenium
3 33 (14.80%) Git
4 24 (10.76%) Cypress.io
5 20 (8.97%) GitLab
6 15 (6.73%) Jenkins
7 14 (6.28%) Eclipse
7 14 (6.28%) Postman
7 14 (6.28%) Zephyr
8 10 (4.48%) JMeter
9 9 (4.04%) Subversion
9 9 (4.04%) TestRail
10 7 (3.14%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.14%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.69%) JUnit
12 5 (2.24%) Gatling
12 5 (2.24%) WebDriver
13 3 (1.35%) Appium
13 3 (1.35%) Eclipse RCP
13 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 102 (45.74%) Social Skills
2 72 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (28.70%) Finance
4 21 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.83%) Retail
7 10 (4.48%) Electronics
8 9 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.59%) Marketing
10 7 (3.14%) Legal
11 6 (2.69%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.69%) Law
11 6 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.24%) Billing
12 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.79%) Advertising
13 4 (1.79%) Banking
13 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (17.49%) Lead
2 38 (17.04%) Analyst
3 36 (16.14%) Senior
4 33 (14.80%) Test Engineer
5 31 (13.90%) QA Engineer
6 28 (12.56%) Tester
7 16 (7.17%) Developer
8 15 (6.73%) QA Leader
9 13 (5.83%) Test Analyst
10 12 (5.38%) Junior
11 11 (4.93%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.93%) QA Tester
11 11 (4.93%) Test Leader
12 9 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.04%) Senior QA Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.59%) Junior Developer
13 8 (3.59%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.59%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.59%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.25%) Playwright
2 18 (8.07%) REST
3 13 (5.83%) React
3 13 (5.83%) RESTful
4 11 (4.93%) JSON
5 10 (4.48%) .NET
5 10 (4.48%) CSS
5 10 (4.48%) HTML
6 8 (3.59%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (3.59%) Struts
6 8 (3.59%) Web Services
6 8 (3.59%) XML
7 6 (2.69%) Node.js
7 6 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.24%) SOAP
9 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.79%) React Native
9 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.35%) JWT
10 3 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.87%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.59%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.79%) SCADA
7 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Life Science
7 3 (1.35%) Mobile Computing
7 3 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.62%) Linux
2 15 (6.73%) Android
3 14 (6.28%) Windows
4 13 (5.83%) Apple iOS
5 8 (3.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.16%) Test Automation
2 116 (52.02%) Agile
3 104 (46.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 87 (39.01%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (35.43%) Validation
6 77 (34.53%) Software Testing
7 65 (29.15%) CI/CD
8 63 (28.25%) DevOps
9 60 (26.91%) User Acceptance Testing
10 58 (26.01%) SDLC
11 46 (20.63%) Manual Testing
11 46 (20.63%) Test Strategy
12 40 (17.94%) Defect Management
13 38 (17.04%) Scrum
14 37 (16.59%) Mentoring
15 35 (15.70%) Code Quality
16 34 (15.25%) Test Scripting
17 29 (13.00%) Exploratory Testing
18 28 (12.56%) Software Engineering
18 28 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.08%) SQL
2 35 (15.70%) Java
2 35 (15.70%) Python
3 26 (11.66%) JavaScript
4 14 (6.28%) C#
5 11 (4.93%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.59%) C++
6 8 (3.59%) Perl
7 5 (2.24%) Apex Code
7 5 (2.24%) Groovy
8 4 (1.79%) Bash
8 4 (1.79%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.35%) C
9 3 (1.35%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) SOQL
10 2 (0.90%) SOSL
11 1 (0.45%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 46 (20.63%) Degree
2 28 (12.56%) ISTQB
3 23 (10.31%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.04%) HND
6 8 (3.59%) HNC
7 6 (2.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (2.24%) AAT
8 5 (2.24%) ISEB
9 4 (1.79%) OCA
9 4 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.90%) ACCA
10 2 (0.90%) CIMA
10 2 (0.90%) CSQA
10 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.45%) CBAP
11 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (50.22%) QA
2 17 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.17%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.48%) GDPR
5 6 (2.69%) WCAG
6 4 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) PMO
9 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.28%) Docker
2 7 (3.14%) Firmware
3 3 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 14 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.59%) Grafana
3 5 (2.24%) Ansible
3 5 (2.24%) Terraform
4 3 (1.35%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) logstash
5 2 (0.90%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
6 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.28%) Oracle
3 12 (5.38%) SAP
4 11 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Workday
7 5 (2.24%) Google
7 5 (2.24%) IFS
7 5 (2.24%) Intel
8 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.90%) Databricks
8 2 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Intapp
8 2 (0.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.45%) Callidus
9 1 (0.45%) Conga
9 1 (0.45%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.45%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.45%) Nintex
9 1 (0.45%) Perfecto Mobile