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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 473 596
Rank change year-on-year -64 +123 -101
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 202 179 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.45% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 125 108 228
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -64 176 £52,500 +10.53% 73
UK excluding London -52 135 £47,500 +3.26% 60
Work from Home -7 60 £55,000 +17.02% 39
London -20 53 £62,500 -3.85% 25
South East -39 41 £46,250 -5.13% 18
North of England -45 27 £37,500 -20.21% 10
South West -46 26 £47,500 +37.68% 8
Midlands -32 20 £55,000 +35.80% 9
North West -2 18 £37,500 -20.21% 8
Scotland +7 12 - - 7
East Midlands -31 10 £55,000 +22.22% 4
West Midlands -39 10 £55,125 +36.11% 5
East of England -15 7 £62,500 -1.96% 7
Yorkshire -52 6 £26,000 -38.82% 1
Wales -34 3 £72,500 +12.84% 1
North East -38 3 £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 4 (1.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.99%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.99%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.50%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.69%) Azure
2 50 (24.75%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.38%) AWS
4 17 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.95%) SaaS
6 10 (4.95%) Serverless
7 8 (3.96%) GCP
8 4 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.98%) GitHub
8 4 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.98%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.49%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.99%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.92%) Power BI
2 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.50%) Metadata
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (18.81%) JIRA
2 33 (16.34%) Selenium
3 20 (9.90%) Cypress.io
4 18 (8.91%) Git
5 12 (5.94%) Jenkins
6 10 (4.95%) Zephyr
7 9 (4.46%) Postman
7 9 (4.46%) TestRail
8 8 (3.96%) Subversion
8 8 (3.96%) WebDriver
9 7 (3.47%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.47%) GitLab
10 6 (2.97%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.98%) JUnit
11 4 (1.98%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.49%) Appium
12 3 (1.49%) JMeter
12 3 (1.49%) Maven
12 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.99%) Liquibase
General
1 85 (42.08%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Finance
3 46 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.91%) Billing
5 13 (6.44%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.46%) Banking
8 8 (3.96%) Marketing
8 8 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.47%) Advertising
9 7 (3.47%) Electronics
9 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.97%) Law
10 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (2.48%) Legal
11 5 (2.48%) Retail
12 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (25.74%) Lead
2 44 (21.78%) Analyst
3 23 (11.39%) QA Leader
4 22 (10.89%) Senior
5 21 (10.40%) Tester
6 18 (8.91%) Test Leader
7 17 (8.42%) QA Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Junior
8 15 (7.43%) Test Engineer
9 13 (6.44%) Technical Analyst
10 12 (5.94%) Applications Support
10 12 (5.94%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (5.94%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (5.94%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.95%) Test Analyst
12 9 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Developer
13 8 (3.96%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.96%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.32%) Playwright
2 15 (7.43%) .NET
3 14 (6.93%) REST
4 8 (3.96%) XML
5 7 (3.47%) JSON
5 7 (3.47%) React
6 6 (2.97%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (2.97%) Visualforce
7 5 (2.48%) RESTful
8 3 (1.49%) CSS
8 3 (1.49%) HTML
8 3 (1.49%) WireMock
9 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.99%) J2EE
9 2 (0.99%) JWT
9 2 (0.99%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.99%) pytest
9 2 (0.99%) SOAP
9 2 (0.99%) Struts
9 2 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.37%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.47%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.48%) Mobile Computing
6 4 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.50%) CAN bus
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Android
1 10 (4.95%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.97%) Linux
3 4 (1.98%) Unix
3 4 (1.98%) Windows
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (53.47%) Test Automation
2 91 (45.05%) Agile
3 64 (31.68%) Software Testing
4 62 (30.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (30.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 61 (30.20%) DevOps
6 56 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (24.26%) CI/CD
8 43 (21.29%) SDLC
9 42 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (20.30%) Manual Testing
11 38 (18.81%) Validation
12 34 (16.83%) Test Strategy
13 31 (15.35%) Mentoring
14 30 (14.85%) Test Scripting
15 29 (14.36%) Acceptance Criteria
15 29 (14.36%) Waterfall
16 28 (13.86%) Process Improvement
16 28 (13.86%) Scrum
17 25 (12.38%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.29%) SQL
2 24 (11.88%) Java
3 22 (10.89%) Python
4 19 (9.41%) C#
5 13 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.47%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.48%) Groovy
9 4 (1.98%) Perl
9 4 (1.98%) Ruby
10 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.99%) Bash
11 2 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.99%) Go
11 2 (0.99%) SOQL
11 2 (0.99%) SOSL
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 46 (22.77%) Degree
2 20 (9.90%) HND
3 19 (9.41%) ISTQB
4 11 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.96%) HNC
6 6 (2.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.98%) BC Cleared
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.98%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.99%) CSQA
8 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.99%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ACCA
9 1 (0.50%) CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (42.57%) QA
2 28 (13.86%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.94%) SLA
4 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.48%) GDPR
6 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.49%) IFRS
7 3 (1.49%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.99%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.50%) GAAP
9 1 (0.50%) MiFID
9 1 (0.50%) PMO
9 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.46%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Firmware
3 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.99%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Ansible
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) logstash
4 2 (0.99%) Packer
4 2 (0.99%) SCCM
4 2 (0.99%) SCOM
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) SAP
3 12 (5.94%) Adobe
3 12 (5.94%) Freshdesk
3 12 (5.94%) Nintex
4 11 (5.45%) Oracle
5 10 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) IFS
7 3 (1.49%) VMware
8 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco
8 2 (0.99%) IBM
8 2 (0.99%) Intapp
8 2 (0.99%) Juniper
8 2 (0.99%) McAfee
8 2 (0.99%) Roku
8 2 (0.99%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile