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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 505 595
Rank change year-on-year -8 +90 -94
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 239 171 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 144 105 214
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,700 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%

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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -21 206 £50,000 -4.76% 105
UK excluding London -21 158 £47,500 - 104
Work from Home -20 84 £52,500 +10.53% 85
London -28 61 £57,500 -11.54% 27
South East -24 46 £46,250 -11.90% 32
South West -41 32 £47,500 +6.74% 10
North of England -33 31 £41,000 -12.77% 20
North West -7 21 £39,250 -16.49% 10
Midlands -24 19 £55,000 +32.53% 14
East of England -6 15 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Scotland +23 13 £62,500 +13.64% 9
West Midlands -28 10 £50,625 +25.00% 6
East Midlands -18 9 £70,000 +55.56% 8
Yorkshire -31 5 £70,000 +91.78% 7
North East -59 5 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Wales -52 3 £72,500 +12.84% 3

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 5 (2.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.77%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.84%) Simulink
6 1 (0.42%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (35.98%) Azure
2 61 (25.52%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (14.64%) AWS
4 18 (7.53%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.86%) GCP
5 14 (5.86%) SaaS
6 13 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.18%) Serverless
8 9 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.93%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (2.09%) GitHub
10 5 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.26%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.84%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.84%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.60%) Power BI
2 6 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.42%) GIS
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata
5 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (18.83%) JIRA
2 40 (16.74%) Selenium
3 31 (12.97%) Git
4 26 (10.88%) Cypress.io
5 17 (7.11%) GitLab
6 15 (6.28%) Jenkins
7 12 (5.02%) Zephyr
8 11 (4.60%) Eclipse
8 11 (4.60%) Postman
9 10 (4.18%) JMeter
9 10 (4.18%) Subversion
10 8 (3.35%) WebDriver
11 7 (2.93%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.93%) REST Assured
11 7 (2.93%) TestRail
12 6 (2.51%) JUnit
12 6 (2.51%) SpecFlow
13 3 (1.26%) Appium
13 3 (1.26%) Maven
13 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (44.77%) Social Skills
2 65 (27.20%) Finance
3 64 (26.78%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.69%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.02%) Billing
8 11 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.35%) Marketing
9 8 (3.35%) Retail
10 7 (2.93%) Banking
10 7 (2.93%) Electronics
10 7 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.51%) Advertising
11 6 (2.51%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.09%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (2.09%) Legal
13 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (20.50%) Lead
2 44 (18.41%) Analyst
3 32 (13.39%) Senior
4 29 (12.13%) Tester
5 26 (10.88%) QA Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) QA Leader
7 21 (8.79%) Test Engineer
8 20 (8.37%) Junior
9 19 (7.95%) Test Leader
10 16 (6.69%) Developer
11 13 (5.44%) Test Analyst
12 11 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.60%) QA Tester
12 11 (4.60%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.18%) Junior Developer
13 10 (4.18%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Technical Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Technical Support
14 8 (3.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.57%) Playwright
2 15 (6.28%) .NET
2 15 (6.28%) REST
3 13 (5.44%) RESTful
4 12 (5.02%) React
5 11 (4.60%) XML
6 8 (3.35%) J2EE
6 8 (3.35%) Struts
6 8 (3.35%) Web Services
7 7 (2.93%) CSS
7 7 (2.93%) HTML
7 7 (2.93%) JSON
8 6 (2.51%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (2.51%) Visualforce
9 5 (2.09%) Node.js
9 5 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.26%) JWT
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.55%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.60%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.35%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.09%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.26%) SCADA
9 3 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.69%) Linux
2 12 (5.02%) Windows
3 8 (3.35%) Unix
4 7 (2.93%) Android
4 7 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.72%) Test Automation
2 106 (44.35%) Agile
3 98 (41.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 78 (32.64%) DevOps
5 76 (31.80%) Software Testing
6 73 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (30.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 69 (28.87%) CI/CD
8 67 (28.03%) Validation
9 58 (24.27%) SDLC
10 54 (22.59%) Manual Testing
11 47 (19.67%) Test Strategy
12 46 (19.25%) Mentoring
13 38 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (14.64%) Scrum
14 35 (14.64%) Test Scripting
15 32 (13.39%) ERP
16 31 (12.97%) Acceptance Criteria
16 31 (12.97%) Defect Management
17 28 (11.72%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.76%) SQL
2 38 (15.90%) Java
3 34 (14.23%) Python
4 21 (8.79%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.95%) C#
6 10 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.35%) Perl
8 7 (2.93%) Apex Code
8 7 (2.93%) C++
9 5 (2.09%) Groovy
9 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.67%) Bash
10 4 (1.67%) Ruby
11 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Go
12 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.84%) SOQL
12 2 (0.84%) SOSL
13 1 (0.42%) ABAP
13 1 (0.42%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Degree
2 29 (12.13%) ISTQB
3 20 (8.37%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.86%) HND
5 14 (5.86%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.35%) HNC
7 7 (2.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (2.09%) AAT
8 5 (2.09%) ISEB
9 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.26%) OCA
9 3 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.84%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.84%) CSQA
11 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (45.61%) QA
2 21 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.86%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.77%) GDPR
5 6 (2.51%) SLA
6 3 (1.26%) IFRS
6 3 (1.26%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.26%) WCAG
7 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.42%) GAAP
8 1 (0.42%) MiFID
8 1 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (6.69%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) Firmware
3 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.51%) Ansible
2 6 (2.51%) Terraform
3 3 (1.26%) Grafana
3 3 (1.26%) Kibana
4 2 (0.84%) logstash
4 2 (0.84%) Packer
4 2 (0.84%) SCCM
4 2 (0.84%) SCOM
5 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 32 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.28%) Oracle
2 15 (6.28%) SAP
3 13 (5.44%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.35%) IFS
5 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.51%) Adobe
6 6 (2.51%) Freshdesk
6 6 (2.51%) Nintex
7 5 (2.09%) Workday
8 4 (1.67%) Intel
9 3 (1.26%) VMware
10 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.84%) Cisco
10 2 (0.84%) Databricks
10 2 (0.84%) IBM
10 2 (0.84%) Intapp
10 2 (0.84%) Juniper
10 2 (0.84%) McAfee
11 1 (0.42%) Ariba