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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 478 586
Rank change year-on-year -53 +108 -111
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 190 169 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.43% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 126 108 219
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £73,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%

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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 22 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 22 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 -62 165 £52,500 +10.53% 99
UK excluding London -70 127 £47,500 +5.56% 89
Work from Home -9 65 £55,000 +17.02% 43
London +4 51 £57,500 -11.54% 41
South East -53 34 £47,500 -5.00% 35
South West -41 28 £47,500 +37.68% 8
North of England -57 22 £38,772 -17.51% 18
Midlands -46 21 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North West -27 16 £42,500 -9.57% 14
Scotland -8 12 - - 8
East Midlands -42 11 £55,000 +22.22% 6
West Midlands -29 10 £53,125 +31.17% 4
East of England -23 7 £62,500 +19.05% 4
Wales -19 4 £63,750 -6.93% 2
Yorkshire -61 4 £26,000 -30.65% 3
North East -45 2 £46,886 +33.96% 1

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 3 (1.58%) Anypoint
1 3 (1.58%) CMS
1 3 (1.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (6.84%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.53%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.58%) Shopify
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.53%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.53%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.53%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.95%) Azure
2 41 (21.58%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.63%) AWS
4 17 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.42%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.79%) SaaS
7 6 (3.16%) GCP
7 6 (3.16%) Serverless
8 5 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.11%) iPaaS
9 4 (2.11%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.58%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.58%) Boomi
10 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.58%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.58%) Workato
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.89%) Power BI
2 12 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.53%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (18.95%) Selenium
2 34 (17.89%) JIRA
3 20 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.79%) Git
5 10 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.26%) TestRail
6 8 (4.21%) Zephyr
7 7 (3.68%) Postman
7 7 (3.68%) Subversion
8 6 (3.16%) SpecFlow
8 6 (3.16%) WebDriver
9 5 (2.63%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.58%) GitLab
10 3 (1.58%) JMeter
10 3 (1.58%) Maven
10 3 (1.58%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.05%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.05%) TestDirector
General
1 81 (42.63%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.79%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (24.74%) Finance
4 17 (8.95%) Billing
5 13 (6.84%) Banking
6 11 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.26%) Law
8 8 (4.21%) Electronics
8 8 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.68%) Advertising
9 7 (3.68%) Back Office
9 7 (3.68%) Legal
10 6 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (2.63%) Marketing
11 5 (2.63%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (26.32%) Analyst
2 43 (22.63%) Lead
3 23 (12.11%) Tester
4 19 (10.00%) QA Leader
5 16 (8.42%) QA Engineer
5 16 (8.42%) Test Leader
6 15 (7.89%) Senior
7 14 (7.37%) Test Analyst
8 13 (6.84%) Applications Support
8 13 (6.84%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (6.84%) Junior
8 13 (6.84%) Support Analyst
9 11 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (4.74%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.68%) QA Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) Senior Technical Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.47%) Playwright
2 17 (8.95%) .NET
3 15 (7.89%) REST
4 12 (6.32%) XML
5 10 (5.26%) JSON
6 6 (3.16%) CSS
6 6 (3.16%) HTML
6 6 (3.16%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (3.16%) React
6 6 (3.16%) Visualforce
7 5 (2.63%) SOAP
8 4 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.58%) RESTful
9 3 (1.58%) Web Services
10 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.05%) Node.js
10 2 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.05%) pytest
10 2 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.84%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.63%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.11%) Derivative
7 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.11%) Equities
7 4 (2.11%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.11%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Linux
2 10 (5.26%) Windows
3 6 (3.16%) Android
3 6 (3.16%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.63%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.68%) Test Automation
2 83 (43.68%) Agile
3 60 (31.58%) Software Testing
4 56 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (29.47%) User Acceptance Testing
5 53 (27.89%) DevOps
6 46 (24.21%) Manual Testing
7 41 (21.58%) CI/CD
8 39 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (20.00%) SDLC
10 36 (18.95%) Validation
11 33 (17.37%) Test Scripting
12 28 (14.74%) Acceptance Criteria
13 27 (14.21%) Mentoring
13 27 (14.21%) Test Strategy
14 26 (13.68%) API Testing
14 26 (13.68%) Waterfall
15 25 (13.16%) Process Improvement
16 24 (12.63%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.68%) SQL
2 26 (13.68%) Python
3 24 (12.63%) Java
4 21 (11.05%) C#
5 12 (6.32%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.21%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.16%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.11%) Bash
8 4 (2.11%) Groovy
8 4 (2.11%) Ruby
9 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.05%) Go
10 2 (1.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.05%) SOQL
10 2 (1.05%) SOSL
11 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (20.00%) Degree
2 25 (13.16%) ISTQB
3 16 (8.42%) HND
4 14 (7.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 12 (6.32%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.68%) ISEB
7 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.11%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.11%) HNC
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.58%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.05%) CSQA
11 1 (0.53%) ACCA
11 1 (0.53%) CBAP
11 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (40.53%) QA
2 26 (13.68%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.32%) SLA
4 9 (4.74%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.63%) GDPR
6 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.58%) IFRS
7 3 (1.58%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.05%) IFRS 17
8 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.53%) GAAP
9 1 (0.53%) MiFID
9 1 (0.53%) PMO
9 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.21%) Docker
2 5 (2.63%) Firmware
3 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.05%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.16%) Terraform
3 5 (2.63%) Ansible
4 3 (1.58%) Kibana
5 2 (1.05%) Grafana
5 2 (1.05%) logstash
5 2 (1.05%) Packer
5 2 (1.05%) SCCM
5 2 (1.05%) SCOM
6 1 (0.53%) Nessus
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.89%) SAP
3 14 (7.37%) Oracle
4 12 (6.32%) Adobe
4 12 (6.32%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.32%) Nintex
5 9 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.16%) IFS
7 5 (2.63%) IBM
8 4 (2.11%) Informatica
9 3 (1.58%) Dell
9 3 (1.58%) Epicor
9 3 (1.58%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.58%) Infor
9 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.58%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.58%) Software AG
9 3 (1.58%) Talend
9 3 (1.58%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.58%) VMware