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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 514 599
Rank change year-on-year -16 +85 -113
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 238 168 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 145 102 211
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £40,000
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 £76,900 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% -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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -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 17 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 17 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 -26 206 £50,000 -4.76% 48
UK excluding London -25 157 £48,750 +2.63% 37
Work from Home -21 85 £51,250 +5.13% 23
London -12 61 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South East -23 46 £46,250 -11.90% 10
North of England -28 31 £41,000 -12.77% 9
South West -30 31 £47,500 +6.74% 6
North West -5 21 £39,250 -16.49% 3
Midlands -23 19 £55,000 +29.41% 7
East of England +3 16 £46,250 -26.00% 4
Scotland +11 12 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands -18 10 £50,625 +19.12% 3
East Midlands -7 9 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Yorkshire -34 5 £70,000 +91.78% 4
North East -59 5 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Wales -50 3 £72,500 +12.84% 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 5 (2.10%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Simulink
5 1 (0.42%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
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 84 (35.29%) Azure
2 59 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (14.71%) AWS
4 17 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.88%) GCP
6 13 (5.46%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (5.46%) SaaS
7 10 (4.20%) Serverless
8 8 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (2.10%) GitHub
10 5 (2.10%) 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 EC2
12 2 (0.84%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.84%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.84%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.20%) Power BI
2 6 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.42%) GIS
6 1 (0.42%) Metadata
6 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (18.49%) JIRA
2 39 (16.39%) Selenium
3 31 (13.03%) Git
4 25 (10.50%) Cypress.io
5 17 (7.14%) GitLab
6 15 (6.30%) Jenkins
7 12 (5.04%) Zephyr
8 11 (4.62%) Eclipse
8 11 (4.62%) Postman
9 10 (4.20%) JMeter
10 9 (3.78%) Subversion
11 8 (3.36%) WebDriver
12 7 (2.94%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.94%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.94%) TestRail
13 6 (2.52%) JUnit
13 6 (2.52%) SpecFlow
14 3 (1.26%) Appium
14 3 (1.26%) Maven
14 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.73%) Finance
3 65 (27.31%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.72%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.62%) Billing
7 11 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.78%) Retail
9 8 (3.36%) Marketing
10 7 (2.94%) Banking
10 7 (2.94%) Electronics
10 7 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.52%) Advertising
11 6 (2.52%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.10%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (2.10%) Legal
13 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (19.75%) Lead
2 43 (18.07%) Analyst
3 31 (13.03%) Senior
4 29 (12.18%) Tester
5 28 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 22 (9.24%) Test Engineer
7 21 (8.82%) QA Leader
8 20 (8.40%) Junior
9 18 (7.56%) Test Leader
10 16 (6.72%) Developer
11 13 (5.46%) Test Analyst
12 11 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.62%) QA Tester
13 10 (4.20%) Junior Developer
13 10 (4.20%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Support Analyst
14 8 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.36%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.36%) Technical Engineer
14 8 (3.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.23%) Playwright
2 15 (6.30%) .NET
2 15 (6.30%) REST
3 13 (5.46%) RESTful
4 11 (4.62%) React
4 11 (4.62%) XML
5 8 (3.36%) J2EE
5 8 (3.36%) Struts
5 8 (3.36%) Web Services
6 7 (2.94%) CSS
6 7 (2.94%) HTML
6 7 (2.94%) JSON
7 6 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (2.52%) Visualforce
8 5 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.68%) Node.js
10 3 (1.26%) JWT
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.36%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.10%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (1.68%) 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 (6.72%) Linux
2 11 (4.62%) Windows
3 8 (3.36%) Unix
4 7 (2.94%) Android
4 7 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (52.10%) Test Automation
2 104 (43.70%) Agile
3 98 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (31.93%) DevOps
4 76 (31.93%) Software Testing
5 74 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (30.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 68 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 68 (28.57%) Validation
8 57 (23.95%) SDLC
9 52 (21.85%) Manual Testing
10 46 (19.33%) Mentoring
10 46 (19.33%) Test Strategy
11 37 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (14.71%) Scrum
12 35 (14.71%) Test Scripting
13 32 (13.45%) ERP
14 31 (13.03%) Acceptance Criteria
14 31 (13.03%) Defect Management
15 28 (11.76%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.43%) SQL
2 38 (15.97%) Java
3 34 (14.29%) Python
4 21 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.98%) C#
6 9 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.36%) Perl
8 7 (2.94%) Apex Code
8 7 (2.94%) C++
9 5 (2.10%) Groovy
9 5 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.68%) Bash
10 4 (1.68%) Ruby
11 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
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
13 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 52 (21.85%) Degree
2 29 (12.18%) ISTQB
3 20 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.46%) HND
7 8 (3.36%) HNC
8 6 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (2.10%) AAT
9 5 (2.10%) ISEB
10 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.26%) OCA
10 3 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.84%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.84%) CSQA
12 1 (0.42%) ACCA
12 1 (0.42%) CBAP
12 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (45.80%) QA
2 19 (7.98%) Accessibility
3 15 (6.30%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.78%) GDPR
5 5 (2.10%) SLA
6 4 (1.68%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.26%) IFRS
7 3 (1.26%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.26%) WCAG
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.42%) GAAP
9 1 (0.42%) MiFID
9 1 (0.42%) PMO
9 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (6.30%) Docker
2 6 (2.52%) Firmware
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.52%) Ansible
2 6 (2.52%) Terraform
3 3 (1.26%) Grafana
3 3 (1.26%) Kibana
4 2 (0.84%) logstash
4 2 (0.84%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.30%) Oracle
2 15 (6.30%) SAP
3 13 (5.46%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.36%) IFS
5 7 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.10%) Adobe
6 5 (2.10%) Freshdesk
6 5 (2.10%) Nintex
6 5 (2.10%) Workday
7 4 (1.68%) Intel
8 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.84%) Databricks
8 2 (0.84%) IBM
8 2 (0.84%) Intapp
8 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Callidus
9 1 (0.42%) Concur
9 1 (0.42%) Conga
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace