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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 495 573
Rank change year-on-year -14 +78 -84
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 184 153 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 123 107 212
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £38,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,625 £56,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -1.11% -14.29%

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 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -52 160 £54,250 +14.21% 96
UK excluding London -41 120 £47,500 +6.74% 81
Work from Home -5 63 £55,000 +17.02% 39
London +6 52 £57,500 -17.86% 29
South East -39 31 £48,750 - 29
South West -27 26 £47,500 +37.68% 8
North of England -69 22 £42,500 -9.57% 19
Midlands -35 20 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North West -26 16 £42,500 -9.57% 11
Scotland -16 12 - - 5
West Midlands -22 10 £53,125 +31.17% 9
East Midlands -39 10 £55,000 +22.22% 1
East of England -21 7 £62,500 +56.25% 6
Yorkshire -58 5 £26,000 -19.96% 3
Wales -23 3 £55,000 -19.71% 7
North East -26 1 £55,000 +57.14% 5

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 6 (3.26%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.63%) CMS
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (3.26%) Shopify
2 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.54%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.54%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.89%) Azure
2 42 (22.83%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.96%) AWS
4 19 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.52%) SaaS
7 7 (3.80%) iPaaS
8 6 (3.26%) Boomi
8 6 (3.26%) GCP
8 6 (3.26%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.26%) Workato
9 5 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.72%) Serverless
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.54%) DHCP
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Power BI
2 14 (7.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (19.57%) JIRA
2 32 (17.39%) Selenium
3 18 (9.78%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.98%) TestRail
5 9 (4.89%) Git
6 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.35%) Postman
6 8 (4.35%) Zephyr
7 7 (3.80%) Subversion
8 6 (3.26%) SpecFlow
8 6 (3.26%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.17%) GitLab
10 3 (1.63%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (1.63%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.63%) TestDirector
11 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.09%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.46%) Finance
3 44 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.15%) Billing
5 13 (7.07%) Law
6 12 (6.52%) Banking
7 11 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.35%) Electronics
8 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.80%) Advertising
9 7 (3.80%) Back Office
9 7 (3.80%) Legal
10 5 (2.72%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.17%) Retail
12 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (27.17%) Analyst
2 37 (20.11%) Lead
3 17 (9.24%) QA Leader
4 16 (8.70%) QA Engineer
4 16 (8.70%) Tester
5 15 (8.15%) Test Analyst
5 15 (8.15%) Test Leader
6 13 (7.07%) Applications Support
6 13 (7.07%) Applications Support Analyst
6 13 (7.07%) Junior
6 13 (7.07%) Senior
6 13 (7.07%) Support Analyst
7 11 (5.98%) Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (5.43%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) QA Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.48%) Playwright
2 17 (9.24%) REST
3 14 (7.61%) .NET
3 14 (7.61%) XML
4 12 (6.52%) JSON
5 7 (3.80%) SOAP
6 6 (3.26%) CSS
6 6 (3.26%) HTML
6 6 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (3.26%) React
6 6 (3.26%) Visualforce
6 6 (3.26%) Web Services
7 5 (2.72%) RESTful
8 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.09%) Middleware
9 2 (1.09%) Node.js
9 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.09%) WPF
9 2 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.59%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.26%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.72%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.17%) Derivative
7 4 (2.17%) Equities
7 4 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.61%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Android
3 7 (3.80%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (52.17%) Test Automation
2 83 (45.11%) Agile
3 57 (30.98%) Software Testing
4 54 (29.35%) DevOps
4 54 (29.35%) User Acceptance Testing
5 53 (28.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (25.00%) Manual Testing
7 39 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (20.11%) CI/CD
9 35 (19.02%) SDLC
10 33 (17.93%) Test Scripting
10 33 (17.93%) Validation
11 26 (14.13%) Mentoring
11 26 (14.13%) Test Strategy
11 26 (14.13%) Waterfall
12 25 (13.59%) API Testing
12 25 (13.59%) Process Improvement
13 24 (13.04%) Customer Service
13 24 (13.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.91%) SQL
2 28 (15.22%) Python
3 23 (12.50%) Java
4 19 (10.33%) C#
5 14 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.26%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.72%) Bash
8 5 (2.72%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.17%) Ruby
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) Perl
10 2 (1.09%) SOQL
10 2 (1.09%) SOSL
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (19.02%) Degree
2 24 (13.04%) ISTQB
3 15 (8.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 14 (7.61%) Security Cleared
5 13 (7.07%) HND
6 7 (3.80%) ISEB
7 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.17%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (2.17%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.54%) ACCA
10 1 (0.54%) CIMA
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (40.22%) QA
2 26 (14.13%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.52%) SLA
4 8 (4.35%) GDPR
5 6 (3.26%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.17%) IFRS
6 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.63%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.63%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.54%) GAAP
9 1 (0.54%) MiFID
9 1 (0.54%) PMO
9 1 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Firmware
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.09%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.80%) Terraform
3 5 (2.72%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Nessus
4 2 (1.09%) Packer
4 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.09%) SCCM
4 2 (1.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.24%) SAP
3 16 (8.70%) Oracle
4 12 (6.52%) Adobe
4 12 (6.52%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.52%) Nintex
5 10 (5.43%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.89%) IFS
7 8 (4.35%) IBM
8 7 (3.80%) Informatica
9 6 (3.26%) Dell
9 6 (3.26%) Epicor
9 6 (3.26%) Infor
9 6 (3.26%) Jitterbit
9 6 (3.26%) MuleSoft
9 6 (3.26%) SnapLogic
9 6 (3.26%) Software AG
9 6 (3.26%) Talend
9 6 (3.26%) TIBCO
9 6 (3.26%) Workday