Regression Testing Jobs

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 607 508
Rank change year-on-year +56 -99 -1
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 179 321 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.36% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 109 226 239
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £68,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £48,939
% change year-on-year -6.00% +2.17% +3.03%

All Process and 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 52,891 89,066 85,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.37% 82.54% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 61,389 52,812
10th Percentile £27,327 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 18 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 30 June 2025. 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 +92 162 £52,500 - 694
UK excluding London +62 118 £47,000 -6.00% 457
Work from Home +69 88 £47,500 -9.52% 201
London +88 51 £60,000 +9.09% 288
South East +58 46 £52,500 -8.70% 134
North of England +34 30 £47,000 +23.68% 86
North West +23 20 £47,000 +25.33% 44
South West +98 17 £35,000 -33.33% 55
Midlands +71 15 £42,500 -15.00% 60
West Midlands +47 10 £41,500 -17.00% 34
North East +55 7 £55,000 +42.86% 3
Scotland +48 7 £55,000 +42.86% 31
East Midlands - 5 £45,000 - 26
Yorkshire +30 3 £42,500 - 39
Wales +40 2 £64,250 -1.15% 9
East of England +10 1 £62,500 -10.71% 70
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 13
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 1

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Simulink
2 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (1.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.99%) Azure
2 21 (11.73%) AWS
3 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.47%) GCP
6 8 (4.47%) GitHub
7 7 (3.91%) OCI
8 6 (3.35%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.12%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.12%) SaaS
10 2 (1.12%) Serverless
10 2 (1.12%) Slack
10 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.56%) mabl
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) Power BI
2 7 (3.91%) MySQL
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.12%) Big Data
5 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.12%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) GIS
6 1 (0.56%) Metadata
6 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Parquet
6 1 (0.56%) Redis
6 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (18.44%) Selenium
2 28 (15.64%) Git
3 16 (8.94%) JIRA
4 13 (7.26%) Appium
5 12 (6.70%) Postman
6 11 (6.15%) Cypress.io
6 11 (6.15%) SpecFlow
7 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
8 6 (3.35%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.35%) TestRail
9 5 (2.79%) JMeter
9 5 (2.79%) LoadRunner
9 5 (2.79%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.23%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.68%) TestComplete
11 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.12%) Gatling
12 2 (1.12%) JUnit
12 2 (1.12%) NUnit
12 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (24.58%) Finance
2 42 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 41 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.17%) Aerospace
5 16 (8.94%) Banking
6 15 (8.38%) Law
7 13 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.91%) Aviation
8 7 (3.91%) Military
9 5 (2.79%) Games
9 5 (2.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.68%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.68%) Retail
10 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.76%) Analyst
2 28 (15.64%) Senior
3 22 (12.29%) Test Engineer
4 21 (11.73%) Developer
5 16 (8.94%) QA Engineer
6 15 (8.38%) Test Analyst
7 14 (7.82%) Software Test Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) QA Analyst
9 12 (6.70%) Lead
10 11 (6.15%) Release Manager
11 10 (5.59%) Consultant
12 9 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.03%) Tester
13 7 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.35%) Oracle Consultant
14 6 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (3.35%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.35%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.50%) .NET
2 13 (7.26%) Qt
3 12 (6.70%) Playwright
4 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.59%) REST
6 8 (4.47%) Gherkin
6 8 (4.47%) XML
7 7 (3.91%) CSS
7 7 (3.91%) HTML
7 7 (3.91%) React
8 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.79%) jQuery
8 5 (2.79%) LAMP
8 5 (2.79%) Vue
9 4 (2.23%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.68%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.68%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.68%) Node.js
10 3 (1.68%) RESTful
10 3 (1.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Embedded Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (7.26%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.70%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.70%) Fixed Income
3 12 (6.70%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.91%) e-Learning
5 7 (3.91%) Reference Data
6 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.68%) Derivative
8 3 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.12%) Equities
9 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.12%) Replication
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.94%) Windows
2 10 (5.59%) Apple iOS
2 10 (5.59%) Linux
3 7 (3.91%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (55.31%) Test Automation
2 70 (39.11%) Software Testing
3 64 (35.75%) Agile
4 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (26.26%) Manual Testing
6 37 (20.67%) DevOps
7 34 (18.99%) Test Scripting
7 34 (18.99%) Test Strategy
8 31 (17.32%) CI/CD
9 29 (16.20%) User Acceptance Testing
10 25 (13.97%) SDLC
11 23 (12.85%) Software Engineering
11 23 (12.85%) Test Management
12 22 (12.29%) Integration Testing
12 22 (12.29%) Performance Testing
12 22 (12.29%) Validation
13 21 (11.73%) API Testing
14 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.17%) Scenario Testing
15 19 (10.61%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.70%) SQL
2 39 (21.79%) Python
3 28 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.29%) C#
5 18 (10.06%) C
6 16 (8.94%) Java
7 15 (8.38%) C++
8 7 (3.91%) PHP
8 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.91%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.12%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) Bash
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.53%) ISTQB
2 25 (13.97%) Degree
3 10 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) ISEB
5 7 (3.91%) HNC
5 7 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.56%) ACCA
10 1 (0.56%) CIMA
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CSQA
10 1 (0.56%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (40.22%) QA
2 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) MiFID
5 1 (0.56%) EMIR
5 1 (0.56%) PSD2
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 24 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Oracle
3 10 (5.59%) SAP
4 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.68%) Twitter
6 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.12%) Databricks
6 2 (1.12%) Google
6 2 (1.12%) Sun
6 2 (1.12%) Workday
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.56%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.56%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.56%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.56%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.56%) UiPath