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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 555 532
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 -46
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 255 125 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 157 72 141
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -5.15%

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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -22 227 £52,500 -4.55% 414
UK excluding London -43 166 £50,000 -9.09% 226
Work from Home -11 77 £50,000 -6.54% 153
London -34 68 £70,000 +18.64% 201
North of England -48 40 £50,000 +2.56% 49
South East -43 39 £52,500 -22.22% 60
Midlands -22 30 £58,500 +67.14% 35
South West -58 30 £42,500 +6.25% 21
West Midlands -21 24 £58,500 +67.14% 24
North West -13 17 £55,000 -6.38% 17
East of England -26 16 £37,500 -42.75% 26
North East -54 13 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -31 10 £52,500 +72.13% 22
Scotland +14 9 £56,250 +2.27% 18
East Midlands -31 6 £61,250 +63.33% 11
Wales -74 2 £58,750 -2.08% 6

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 (3.14%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.53%) Simulink
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.18%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.98%) Azure
2 47 (18.43%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (11.37%) AWS
4 20 (7.84%) GCP
5 16 (6.27%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.27%) SaaS
6 15 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.71%) GitHub
7 12 (4.71%) Serverless
8 8 (3.14%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (0.78%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) TCP/IP
1 9 (3.53%) Wireshark
2 4 (1.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.75%) Power BI
2 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.96%) Metadata
3 5 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.18%) Power Query
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.39%) GIS
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (17.25%) Selenium
2 41 (16.08%) JIRA
3 36 (14.12%) Cypress.io
4 30 (11.76%) Git
5 21 (8.24%) Eclipse
5 21 (8.24%) GitLab
6 20 (7.84%) REST Assured
7 16 (6.27%) Postman
8 13 (5.10%) Jenkins
9 12 (4.71%) JMeter
10 9 (3.53%) Subversion
10 9 (3.53%) Zephyr
11 6 (2.35%) Appium
11 6 (2.35%) JUnit
12 5 (1.96%) Gatling
12 5 (1.96%) TestRail
13 4 (1.57%) Ranorex
14 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.18%) Eclipse RCP
14 3 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 88 (34.51%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (26.67%) Finance
4 26 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.45%) Retail
7 18 (7.06%) Electronics
8 13 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.14%) Law
9 8 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.75%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.75%) Marketing
10 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Banking
11 5 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Legal
12 4 (1.57%) Publishing
13 3 (1.18%) Automotive
13 3 (1.18%) Billing
13 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.18%) Analyst
2 51 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 40 (15.69%) Senior
4 38 (14.90%) Test Engineer
5 35 (13.73%) Lead
6 22 (8.63%) Tester
7 17 (6.67%) Developer
7 17 (6.67%) Test Analyst
8 13 (5.10%) Junior
8 13 (5.10%) QA Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Senior QA Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.31%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.31%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Support Analyst
11 10 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) QA Leader
12 9 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) Lead Test Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.47%) Playwright
2 33 (12.94%) REST
3 18 (7.06%) React
3 18 (7.06%) RESTful
4 14 (5.49%) CSS
4 14 (5.49%) HTML
5 10 (3.92%) JSON
5 10 (3.92%) Node.js
6 9 (3.53%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (3.53%) Struts
6 9 (3.53%) Web Services
6 9 (3.53%) XML
7 8 (3.14%) .NET
8 7 (2.75%) Terraform
9 6 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.57%) OAuth
10 4 (1.57%) React Native
10 4 (1.57%) Swagger
11 3 (1.18%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.18%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.55%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.20%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.31%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.14%) SCADA
7 7 (2.75%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.57%) Life Science
9 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.18%) FMCG
10 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.45%) Linux
2 18 (7.06%) Android
3 17 (6.67%) Windows
4 16 (6.27%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.53%) Unix
6 3 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (57.65%) Test Automation
2 128 (50.20%) Agile
3 112 (43.92%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (42.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (38.43%) Validation
6 88 (34.51%) Software Testing
7 83 (32.55%) CI/CD
8 61 (23.92%) DevOps
9 59 (23.14%) SDLC
9 59 (23.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 48 (18.82%) Manual Testing
11 47 (18.43%) Defect Management
12 46 (18.04%) Test Strategy
13 43 (16.86%) Code Quality
14 39 (15.29%) End-to-End Testing
14 39 (15.29%) Test Scripting
15 36 (14.12%) Scrum
16 34 (13.33%) Exploratory Testing
17 33 (12.94%) Software Engineering
18 32 (12.55%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.14%) SQL
2 44 (17.25%) Python
3 38 (14.90%) Java
4 37 (14.51%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.27%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.71%) C#
7 9 (3.53%) C
7 9 (3.53%) C++
7 9 (3.53%) Embedded C
7 9 (3.53%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.75%) Perl
9 5 (1.96%) Bash
10 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.78%) Go
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) ABAP
13 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (19.61%) Degree
2 40 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.80%) ISTQB
4 22 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.75%) AAT
8 6 (2.35%) HNC
8 6 (2.35%) HND
9 4 (1.57%) OCA
9 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.18%) ISEB
10 3 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.78%) ACCA
11 2 (0.78%) CIMA
12 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.39%) CCSP
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (50.59%) QA
2 25 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.49%) GDPR
4 6 (2.35%) WCAG
5 5 (1.96%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.78%) GxP
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.45%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.75%) Grafana
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) Oracle
3 9 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.14%) SAP
4 8 (3.14%) Workday
5 7 (2.75%) IFS
6 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.96%) Google
7 5 (1.96%) Intel
8 2 (0.78%) Databricks
8 2 (0.78%) Foundry
8 2 (0.78%) Informatica
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.39%) Aderant
9 1 (0.39%) Concur
9 1 (0.39%) Conga
9 1 (0.39%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.39%) Intapp
9 1 (0.39%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.39%) TIBCO