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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 546 543
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 -60
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 231 134 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.31% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 142 80 158
10th Percentile £31,488 £32,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,688 £41,013 £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 £69,500 £65,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% +0.53%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -25 210 £52,500 -4.55% 358
UK excluding London -42 159 £50,000 -6.98% 201
Work from Home -26 71 £47,500 -13.64% 136
London -40 58 £70,000 +16.67% 175
South East -41 45 £52,500 -22.22% 51
North of England -51 35 £50,000 +15.61% 36
Midlands -7 30 £51,875 +48.21% 26
South West -54 28 £42,500 +6.25% 26
West Midlands -19 24 £50,000 +42.86% 18
North West -10 16 £46,750 -15.00% 21
East of England -20 13 £37,500 -40.00% 34
Yorkshire -31 10 £52,500 +72.13% 9
North East -58 9 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Scotland +8 7 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East Midlands -28 6 £70,000 +86.67% 7
Wales -75 2 £72,500 +20.83% 4

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 7 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.43%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.46%) Simulink
3 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.73%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.43%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 74 (32.03%) Azure
2 45 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.42%) AWS
4 19 (8.23%) GCP
5 15 (6.49%) SaaS
6 14 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.76%) Serverless
9 8 (3.46%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.46%) GitHub
9 8 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.03%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.30%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.87%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.46%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.46%) Wireshark
2 4 (1.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.73%) Power BI
2 4 (1.73%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.43%) Power Query
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 43 (18.61%) JIRA
2 38 (16.45%) Selenium
3 31 (13.42%) Git
4 28 (12.12%) Cypress.io
5 22 (9.52%) GitLab
6 20 (8.66%) Eclipse
7 18 (7.79%) Jenkins
7 18 (7.79%) Postman
8 13 (5.63%) JMeter
8 13 (5.63%) REST Assured
9 12 (5.19%) Zephyr
10 9 (3.90%) Subversion
11 8 (3.46%) TestRail
12 7 (3.03%) Cucumber
12 7 (3.03%) JUnit
13 5 (2.16%) Gatling
14 4 (1.73%) Appium
15 3 (1.30%) Eclipse RCP
15 3 (1.30%) Ranorex
15 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 83 (35.93%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (26.41%) Finance
4 22 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.93%) Electronics
7 15 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.49%) Retail
8 8 (3.46%) Marketing
9 7 (3.03%) Law
9 7 (3.03%) Legal
9 7 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.60%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.73%) Billing
12 3 (1.30%) Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (17.75%) Lead
2 40 (17.32%) Analyst
3 39 (16.88%) QA Engineer
4 38 (16.45%) Senior
4 38 (16.45%) Test Engineer
5 28 (12.12%) Tester
6 14 (6.06%) Developer
6 14 (6.06%) Test Analyst
7 13 (5.63%) QA Leader
8 12 (5.19%) QA Tester
9 11 (4.76%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.76%) Junior
9 11 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Test Leader
11 8 (3.46%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Automation Tester
11 8 (3.46%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Technical Support
11 8 (3.46%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.02%) Playwright
2 23 (9.96%) REST
3 15 (6.49%) RESTful
4 14 (6.06%) React
5 11 (4.76%) CSS
5 11 (4.76%) HTML
6 10 (4.33%) JSON
7 9 (3.90%) Jakarta EE
7 9 (3.90%) Struts
7 9 (3.90%) Web Services
8 8 (3.46%) XML
9 7 (3.03%) .NET
9 7 (3.03%) Node.js
10 6 (2.60%) Terraform
11 5 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (2.16%) Swagger
12 4 (1.73%) React Native
13 3 (1.30%) JWT
13 3 (1.30%) OpenAPI
13 3 (1.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.42%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.39%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.46%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.46%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.03%) SCADA
6 5 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Life Science
8 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.87%) CMDB
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.66%) Linux
2 17 (7.36%) Android
3 15 (6.49%) Apple iOS
4 14 (6.06%) Windows
5 9 (3.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (58.01%) Test Automation
2 120 (51.95%) Agile
3 101 (43.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 94 (40.69%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (38.53%) Validation
6 81 (35.06%) Software Testing
7 71 (30.74%) CI/CD
8 58 (25.11%) DevOps
9 57 (24.68%) SDLC
10 54 (23.38%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (20.78%) Test Strategy
12 46 (19.91%) Manual Testing
13 44 (19.05%) Defect Management
14 40 (17.32%) Code Quality
15 38 (16.45%) Scrum
16 35 (15.15%) Test Scripting
17 33 (14.29%) Mentoring
18 31 (13.42%) Acceptance Criteria
18 31 (13.42%) Exploratory Testing
19 28 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.65%) SQL
2 40 (17.32%) Java
3 36 (15.58%) Python
4 31 (13.42%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.19%) C#
5 12 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.90%) C++
6 9 (3.90%) Perl
7 8 (3.46%) C
7 8 (3.46%) Embedded C
7 8 (3.46%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.16%) Bash
8 5 (2.16%) Groovy
9 4 (1.73%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.43%) ABAP
10 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (21.21%) Degree
2 29 (12.55%) ISTQB
3 28 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.46%) HNC
6 8 (3.46%) HND
7 6 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.16%) AAT
9 4 (1.73%) OCA
9 4 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.30%) ISEB
10 3 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.87%) ACCA
11 2 (0.87%) CIMA
11 2 (0.87%) CSQA
12 1 (0.43%) CBAP
12 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (50.65%) QA
2 21 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 14 (6.06%) GDPR
4 12 (5.19%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.60%) WCAG
6 5 (2.16%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.87%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (6.93%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.46%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.46%) Grafana
3 5 (2.16%) Ansible
4 3 (1.30%) Kibana
5 2 (0.87%) logstash
5 2 (0.87%) Packer
6 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.63%) Oracle
3 9 (3.90%) SAP
4 8 (3.46%) Workday
5 7 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.16%) Google
6 5 (2.16%) IFS
6 5 (2.16%) Intel
7 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.87%) Databricks
7 2 (0.87%) IBM
7 2 (0.87%) Informatica
7 2 (0.87%) Intapp
8 1 (0.43%) Callidus
8 1 (0.43%) Concur
8 1 (0.43%) Conga
8 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) VMware