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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 522 489
Rank change year-on-year -31 -33 -22
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 118 232 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 70 134 201
10th Percentile £31,175 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £61,300
90th Percentile £75,500 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £42,500 £46,750
% change year-on-year +26.47% -9.09% -6.50%

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 43,423 57,271 53,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 82.20% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 24,627 30,673 40,835
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £53,928 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.77% +0.80% +1.90%

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 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 17 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 18 October 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 +26 106 £55,297 -2.13% 89
UK excluding London -23 69 £53,750 +26.47% 77
Work from Home +34 53 £55,000 -0.39% 65
London +34 36 £59,000 -17.19% 28
South East +22 28 £67,500 +28.57% 29
North of England 0 15 £42,500 - 12
South West +40 12 £40,000 +15.94% 6
Midlands +24 7 £35,000 -44.88% 15
North West -1 7 £62,500 +50.60% 9
Yorkshire +14 6 £30,500 -28.24% 2
Scotland -17 5 £55,000 +41.94% 3
West Midlands +44 4 £35,000 -53.33% 12
East Midlands +2 3 £37,500 -26.83% 2
North East +10 2 £55,000 - 1
East of England +3 2 £65,500 +74.67% 11
Wales +7 1 £60,000 -36.84% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 8 (6.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.54%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (8.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (5.93%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (2.54%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.69%) Shopify
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.85%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.85%) Magento
5 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.81%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.10%) AWS
4 12 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (9.32%) GitHub
6 7 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.24%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.54%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.54%) Boomi
9 3 (2.54%) Datadog
9 3 (2.54%) iPaaS
9 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.54%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.54%) Serverless
9 3 (2.54%) Workato
10 2 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
1 1 (0.85%) DHCP
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
1 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.39%) Power BI
3 3 (2.54%) Mixpanel
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Parquet
5 1 (0.85%) Redis
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (33.05%) JIRA
2 20 (16.95%) Selenium
3 12 (10.17%) Postman
4 11 (9.32%) Git
4 11 (9.32%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.63%) Cypress.io
5 9 (7.63%) eCATT
6 7 (5.93%) TestRail
6 7 (5.93%) Zephyr
7 5 (4.24%) WebDriver
8 4 (3.39%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (3.39%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.39%) TeamCity
8 4 (3.39%) TestNG
9 3 (2.54%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.54%) Fiddler
9 3 (2.54%) JMeter
9 3 (2.54%) Maven
9 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (37.29%) Finance
2 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 32 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.41%) Law
5 14 (11.86%) Legal
6 13 (11.02%) Marketing
7 12 (10.17%) Manufacturing
8 11 (9.32%) Banking
9 9 (7.63%) Aerospace
9 9 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (7.63%) Military
9 9 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (5.93%) Aviation
11 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (3.39%) Retail
13 3 (2.54%) Electronics
14 1 (0.85%) Automotive
14 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) Analyst
2 22 (18.64%) Test Analyst
3 16 (13.56%) Senior
4 14 (11.86%) Lead
5 10 (8.47%) Automation Test Analyst
5 10 (8.47%) Developer
6 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Test Manager
7 8 (6.78%) QA Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) Consultant
8 7 (5.93%) Release Manager
8 7 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Test Leader
8 7 (5.93%) Tester
9 6 (5.08%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (5.08%) QA Leader
9 6 (5.08%) Software Tester
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (4.24%) Software Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) .NET
2 9 (7.63%) REST
3 8 (6.78%) Playwright
3 8 (6.78%) XML
4 3 (2.54%) SOAP
5 2 (1.69%) Kafka
5 2 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.69%) Node.js
5 2 (1.69%) Qt
5 2 (1.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.85%) LESS
6 1 (0.85%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (0.85%) React
6 1 (0.85%) Sass
6 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (5.93%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.93%) e-Learning
2 7 (5.93%) Fixed Income
2 7 (5.93%) Reference Data
3 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.54%) W3C
7 2 (1.69%) Derivative
7 2 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Equities
7 2 (1.69%) Replication
7 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Android
2 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 57 (48.31%) Agile
3 38 (32.20%) Software Testing
4 36 (30.51%) CI/CD
5 33 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (27.97%) DevOps
6 30 (25.42%) Manual Testing
7 29 (24.58%) Test Strategy
8 27 (22.88%) Scenario Testing
9 26 (22.03%) Integration Testing
9 26 (22.03%) Test Management
10 25 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (21.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (20.34%) Test Scripting
12 23 (19.49%) ERP
13 22 (18.64%) SDLC
14 20 (16.95%) End-to-End Testing
15 18 (15.25%) Performance Testing
16 17 (14.41%) Roadmaps
17 16 (13.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) SQL
2 17 (14.41%) Python
3 14 (11.86%) Java
4 13 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) C#
6 7 (5.93%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.08%) C
8 4 (3.39%) C++
9 3 (2.54%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.69%) SOQL
11 1 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) PHP
11 1 (0.85%) Rust
11 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) ISTQB
2 14 (11.86%) Degree
3 10 (8.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.93%) ISEB
6 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) ACCA
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CIMA
7 1 (0.85%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) MCSA
7 1 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PhD
7 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (44.92%) QA
2 10 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.71%) SAP
3 9 (7.63%) HP
4 8 (6.78%) Oracle
4 8 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.24%) Workday
6 4 (3.39%) Adobe
7 3 (2.54%) Dell
7 3 (2.54%) Epicor
7 3 (2.54%) IBM
7 3 (2.54%) IFS
7 3 (2.54%) Infor
7 3 (2.54%) Informatica
7 3 (2.54%) Jitterbit
7 3 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.54%) SnapLogic
7 3 (2.54%) Software AG
7 3 (2.54%) Talend
7 3 (2.54%) Tealium
7 3 (2.54%) TIBCO