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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 529 530
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 -36
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 249 131 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 149 80 153
10th Percentile £32,450 £32,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,013 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £63,112
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +2.63%

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 85,482 43,719 62,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.07% 88.75% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58,986 24,656 34,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -18 226 £52,500 -4.55% 390
UK excluding London -35 170 £50,000 -9.09% 228
Work from Home -36 73 £48,750 -8.88% 136
London -37 62 £70,000 +16.67% 191
South East -40 45 £52,500 -22.22% 71
North of England -40 39 £50,000 +1.78% 37
Midlands -25 31 £51,875 +48.21% 29
South West -59 31 £42,500 +6.25% 34
West Midlands -24 25 £50,000 +42.86% 17
North West -15 17 £52,500 -4.55% 15
East of England -20 15 £46,250 -29.39% 33
Yorkshire -36 11 £52,500 +72.13% 14
North East -57 11 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Scotland +5 7 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East Midlands -24 6 £70,000 +86.67% 11
Wales -74 3 £72,500 +20.83% 8

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 (3.21%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.61%) Simulink
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.61%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.52%) Azure
2 47 (18.88%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (12.85%) AWS
4 19 (7.63%) GCP
5 16 (6.43%) SaaS
6 15 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.62%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.22%) Serverless
9 8 (3.21%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.21%) GitHub
9 8 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.81%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.20%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.61%) Wireshark
2 8 (3.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.61%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.01%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.20%) Metadata
4 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.80%) Power Query
5 2 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) GIS
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (18.07%) Selenium
2 44 (17.67%) JIRA
3 33 (13.25%) Cypress.io
4 32 (12.85%) Git
5 22 (8.84%) GitLab
6 21 (8.43%) Eclipse
7 18 (7.23%) Jenkins
7 18 (7.23%) Postman
7 18 (7.23%) REST Assured
8 14 (5.62%) JMeter
9 10 (4.02%) Zephyr
10 9 (3.61%) Subversion
11 7 (2.81%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.81%) JUnit
11 7 (2.81%) TestRail
12 5 (2.01%) Appium
12 5 (2.01%) Gatling
13 4 (1.61%) Ranorex
14 3 (1.20%) Eclipse RCP
14 3 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 97 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 88 (35.34%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (26.10%) Finance
4 25 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.83%) Electronics
6 17 (6.83%) Retail
7 15 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.61%) Law
8 9 (3.61%) Marketing
9 7 (2.81%) General Ledger
9 7 (2.81%) Legal
9 7 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.01%) Billing
12 4 (1.61%) Banking
13 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.20%) Publishing
14 2 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 49 (19.68%) Analyst
2 44 (17.67%) QA Engineer
3 42 (16.87%) Lead
4 41 (16.47%) Senior
5 38 (15.26%) Test Engineer
6 27 (10.84%) Tester
7 17 (6.83%) Test Analyst
8 14 (5.62%) Developer
9 13 (5.22%) QA Leader
10 12 (4.82%) Junior
10 12 (4.82%) QA Tester
11 11 (4.42%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.42%) Senior QA Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Test Leader
13 8 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (3.21%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.21%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.87%) Playwright
2 28 (11.24%) REST
3 16 (6.43%) RESTful
4 15 (6.02%) React
5 12 (4.82%) CSS
5 12 (4.82%) HTML
6 10 (4.02%) JSON
7 9 (3.61%) Jakarta EE
7 9 (3.61%) Struts
7 9 (3.61%) Web Services
8 8 (3.21%) .NET
8 8 (3.21%) Node.js
8 8 (3.21%) XML
9 7 (2.81%) Terraform
10 5 (2.01%) OAuth
10 5 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (2.01%) Swagger
11 4 (1.61%) React Native
12 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.20%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.85%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.04%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.21%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.21%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.81%) SCADA
7 6 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.20%) Life Science
9 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.80%) CMDB
10 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.03%) Linux
2 18 (7.23%) Android
3 16 (6.43%) Apple iOS
4 14 (5.62%) Windows
5 9 (3.61%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (57.43%) Test Automation
2 127 (51.00%) Agile
3 107 (42.97%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (42.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 96 (38.55%) Validation
6 88 (35.34%) Software Testing
7 80 (32.13%) CI/CD
8 61 (24.50%) DevOps
9 59 (23.69%) SDLC
10 57 (22.89%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (19.28%) Defect Management
11 48 (19.28%) Test Strategy
12 46 (18.47%) Manual Testing
13 42 (16.87%) Code Quality
14 39 (15.66%) Scrum
15 37 (14.86%) Test Scripting
16 36 (14.46%) End-to-End Testing
17 33 (13.25%) Exploratory Testing
18 32 (12.85%) Acceptance Criteria
18 32 (12.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.69%) SQL
2 41 (16.47%) Java
3 40 (16.06%) Python
4 33 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.22%) C#
7 9 (3.61%) C
7 9 (3.61%) C++
7 9 (3.61%) Embedded C
7 9 (3.61%) MATLAB
7 9 (3.61%) Perl
8 5 (2.01%) Bash
8 5 (2.01%) Groovy
9 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (20.48%) Degree
2 35 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 30 (12.05%) ISTQB
4 20 (8.03%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.21%) HNC
7 8 (3.21%) HND
8 5 (2.01%) AAT
9 4 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.61%) OCA
9 4 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.20%) ISEB
11 2 (0.80%) ACCA
11 2 (0.80%) CIMA
11 2 (0.80%) CSQA
12 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (51.81%) QA
2 24 (9.64%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.62%) GDPR
4 12 (4.82%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.41%) WCAG
6 5 (2.01%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.80%) GxP
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (6.83%) Docker
2 9 (3.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.21%) Grafana
3 5 (2.01%) Ansible
4 3 (1.20%) Kibana
5 2 (0.80%) logstash
5 2 (0.80%) Packer
5 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.22%) Oracle
3 10 (4.02%) SAP
4 9 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.21%) Workday
6 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.01%) Google
7 5 (2.01%) IFS
7 5 (2.01%) Intel
8 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.80%) Databricks
9 2 (0.80%) IBM
9 2 (0.80%) Intapp
10 1 (0.40%) Aderant
10 1 (0.40%) Callidus
10 1 (0.40%) Conga
10 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.40%) Perfecto Mobile