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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 538 540
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 -62
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 251 132 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 150 74 142
10th Percentile £31,175 £31,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,688 £40,075 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,813 £69,688
90th Percentile £83,875 £75,000 £93,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.65% -2.60%

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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -33 224 £52,500 -4.55% 484
UK excluding London -50 164 £50,000 -9.09% 313
Work from Home -24 78 £47,500 -11.21% 205
London -40 66 £70,000 +18.64% 218
South East -42 41 £52,500 -22.22% 83
North of England -40 39 £50,000 +1.78% 64
South West -52 30 £42,500 +6.25% 35
Midlands -21 29 £56,250 +60.71% 48
West Midlands -19 23 £50,000 +42.86% 29
North West -12 16 £52,500 -4.55% 30
East of England -21 15 £37,500 -42.75% 36
North East -49 13 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -40 10 £52,500 +72.13% 24
Scotland +4 8 £62,500 +13.64% 29
East Midlands -42 6 £70,000 +86.67% 19
Wales -71 2 £58,750 -2.08% 13

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 9 (3.59%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.59%) Simulink
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.20%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.08%) Azure
2 46 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (11.95%) AWS
4 20 (7.97%) GCP
5 16 (6.37%) SaaS
6 15 (5.98%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.58%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.78%) Serverless
9 10 (3.98%) GitHub
10 8 (3.19%) BrowserStack
10 8 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.79%) Tricentis Tosca
12 4 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.80%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (0.80%) Azure App Service
14 2 (0.80%) Azure Storage
14 2 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.59%) Wireshark
2 8 (3.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.39%) Power BI
2 5 (1.99%) Metadata
2 5 (1.99%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.20%) Power Query
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) GIS
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (16.73%) Selenium
2 41 (16.33%) JIRA
3 33 (13.15%) Cypress.io
4 30 (11.95%) Git
5 21 (8.37%) Eclipse
5 21 (8.37%) GitLab
6 17 (6.77%) REST Assured
7 16 (6.37%) Postman
8 15 (5.98%) Jenkins
9 13 (5.18%) JMeter
10 9 (3.59%) Subversion
10 9 (3.59%) Zephyr
11 7 (2.79%) JUnit
12 6 (2.39%) Appium
12 6 (2.39%) TestRail
13 5 (1.99%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.99%) Gatling
14 4 (1.59%) Ranorex
15 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.20%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 98 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 91 (36.25%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (26.29%) Finance
4 25 (9.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.57%) Retail
6 17 (6.77%) Electronics
7 14 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.59%) Law
9 8 (3.19%) Marketing
10 7 (2.79%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.39%) Legal
12 5 (1.99%) Banking
12 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.99%) Publishing
13 4 (1.59%) Billing
14 3 (1.20%) Automotive
14 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.51%) Analyst
2 47 (18.73%) QA Engineer
3 42 (16.73%) Senior
4 38 (15.14%) Lead
5 37 (14.74%) Test Engineer
6 27 (10.76%) Tester
7 18 (7.17%) Test Analyst
8 15 (5.98%) Developer
9 13 (5.18%) Junior
10 12 (4.78%) QA Leader
10 12 (4.78%) QA Tester
11 11 (4.38%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.38%) Senior QA Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) Support Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Automation Tester
14 8 (3.19%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.54%) Playwright
2 27 (10.76%) REST
3 18 (7.17%) RESTful
4 17 (6.77%) React
5 14 (5.58%) CSS
5 14 (5.58%) HTML
6 10 (3.98%) Node.js
7 9 (3.59%) .NET
7 9 (3.59%) Jakarta EE
7 9 (3.59%) JSON
7 9 (3.59%) Struts
7 9 (3.59%) Web Services
8 8 (3.19%) XML
9 7 (2.79%) Terraform
10 6 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (1.99%) OAuth
11 5 (1.99%) Swagger
12 4 (1.59%) React Native
13 3 (1.20%) OSGi
13 3 (1.20%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.36%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.98%) Client/Server
4 10 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.79%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.79%) SCADA
7 6 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.59%) Life Science
10 3 (1.20%) FMCG
10 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.80%) CMDB
11 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.17%) Android
1 18 (7.17%) Linux
2 16 (6.37%) Apple iOS
2 16 (6.37%) Windows
3 9 (3.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (57.37%) Test Automation
2 130 (51.79%) Agile
3 110 (43.82%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (43.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (39.04%) Validation
6 89 (35.46%) Software Testing
7 81 (32.27%) CI/CD
8 60 (23.90%) DevOps
8 60 (23.90%) SDLC
8 60 (23.90%) User Acceptance Testing
9 49 (19.52%) Manual Testing
10 48 (19.12%) Defect Management
11 46 (18.33%) Test Strategy
12 43 (17.13%) Code Quality
13 38 (15.14%) Scrum
14 37 (14.74%) Test Scripting
15 36 (14.34%) End-to-End Testing
16 35 (13.94%) Exploratory Testing
17 34 (13.55%) Acceptance Criteria
18 31 (12.35%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.51%) SQL
2 43 (17.13%) Python
3 39 (15.54%) Java
4 36 (14.34%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.18%) C#
7 9 (3.59%) C
7 9 (3.59%) C++
7 9 (3.59%) Embedded C
7 9 (3.59%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.79%) Perl
9 5 (1.99%) Bash
10 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.20%) Groovy
11 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (19.92%) Degree
2 36 (14.34%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.16%) ISTQB
4 22 (8.76%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.79%) HNC
7 7 (2.79%) HND
8 6 (2.39%) AAT
9 4 (1.59%) OCA
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.20%) ISEB
10 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.80%) ACCA
11 2 (0.80%) CIMA
11 2 (0.80%) CSQA
12 1 (0.40%) CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (50.60%) QA
2 24 (9.56%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.58%) GDPR
4 13 (5.18%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.39%) WCAG
6 5 (1.99%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.80%) GxP
7 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.57%) Docker
2 9 (3.59%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.19%) Grafana
3 3 (1.20%) Ansible
3 3 (1.20%) Kibana
4 2 (0.80%) logstash
4 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 36 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.18%) Oracle
3 9 (3.59%) SAP
4 8 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.19%) Workday
5 6 (2.39%) IFS
5 6 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.99%) Google
6 5 (1.99%) Intel
7 2 (0.80%) Databricks
7 2 (0.80%) Informatica
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Concur
8 1 (0.40%) Conga
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) VMware