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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 515 557
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 -93
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 147 182 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.40% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 97 93 193
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,070 £62,606
90th Percentile £73,150 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.28% -10.00% -10.00%

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 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +21 131 £55,000 +10.00% 75
UK excluding London -29 88 £47,500 +17.28% 63
Work from Home +40 53 £55,000 +10.00% 41
London +40 46 £57,750 -17.50% 21
South East +9 29 £55,000 +12.82% 22
South West -12 21 £37,500 +8.70% 7
Midlands -4 13 £55,000 +28.65% 10
North of England -19 13 £42,500 -19.05% 17
Scotland -12 10 - - 3
North West +6 8 £42,500 -19.05% 12
West Midlands +8 7 £55,250 +36.42% 7
East Midlands -17 6 £55,000 +8.91% 3
Yorkshire -34 4 £26,000 -19.96% 3
East of England +11 1 £68,500 +76.77% 5
Wales +2 1 £50,000 -
North East -4 1 £55,000 - 2

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 7 (4.76%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.08%) Confluence
3 3 (2.04%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (7.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.08%) Shopify
3 2 (1.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.68%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.25%) Azure
1 43 (29.25%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (9.52%) AWS
4 13 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.80%) SaaS
6 7 (4.76%) Boomi
6 7 (4.76%) iPaaS
6 7 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.76%) Workato
7 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.04%) Datadog
8 3 (2.04%) GCP
9 2 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.36%) GitHub
9 2 (1.36%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.36%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.68%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.68%) DHCP
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.88%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.48%) Power BI
3 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.04%) Mixpanel
3 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (27.21%) JIRA
2 24 (16.33%) Selenium
3 15 (10.20%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.12%) eCATT
5 8 (5.44%) Postman
5 8 (5.44%) TestRail
6 7 (4.76%) Subversion
7 6 (4.08%) Charles Proxy
7 6 (4.08%) Zephyr
8 5 (3.40%) Fiddler
8 5 (3.40%) Git
8 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
8 5 (3.40%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.72%) TestNG
10 3 (2.04%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (2.04%) Maven
10 3 (2.04%) TestDirector
11 2 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (1.36%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 51 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.25%) Finance
3 38 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.61%) Law
5 13 (8.84%) Marketing
6 12 (8.16%) Manufacturing
7 11 (7.48%) Billing
8 10 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (6.12%) Banking
9 9 (6.12%) Electronics
9 9 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (5.44%) Legal
11 7 (4.76%) Back Office
12 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
14 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.72%) Retail
15 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
15 3 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (35.37%) Analyst
2 24 (16.33%) Test Analyst
3 23 (15.65%) Lead
4 17 (11.56%) Senior
5 16 (10.88%) Tester
6 13 (8.84%) QA Leader
7 11 (7.48%) Applications Support
7 11 (7.48%) Applications Support Analyst
7 11 (7.48%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) Automation Test Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) QA Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) Test Leader
9 8 (5.44%) QA Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Test Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.29%) Playwright
2 12 (8.16%) REST
3 8 (5.44%) .NET
3 8 (5.44%) XML
4 7 (4.76%) JSON
5 6 (4.08%) React
5 6 (4.08%) SOAP
5 6 (4.08%) Web Services
6 5 (3.40%) RESTful
7 4 (2.72%) CSS
7 4 (2.72%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (2.72%) HTML
8 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.36%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.36%) Node.js
8 2 (1.36%) WPF
9 1 (0.68%) Kafka
9 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.08%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.40%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (3.40%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.72%) Derivative
6 4 (2.72%) Equities
6 4 (2.72%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.04%) W3C
8 2 (1.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.36%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) PKI
9 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Linux
2 8 (5.44%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Android
3 6 (4.08%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.40%) Unix
5 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (55.78%) Test Automation
2 64 (43.54%) Agile
3 49 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 43 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (29.25%) DevOps
5 41 (27.89%) Software Testing
6 40 (27.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 39 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (22.45%) Test Scripting
9 29 (19.73%) Test Management
10 27 (18.37%) CI/CD
10 27 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (17.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (16.33%) API Testing
12 24 (16.33%) Test Strategy
13 23 (15.65%) ERP
13 23 (15.65%) Validation
14 22 (14.97%) End-to-End Testing
14 22 (14.97%) Scenario Testing
14 22 (14.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.45%) SQL
2 23 (15.65%) Python
3 19 (12.93%) Java
4 13 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.16%) C#
6 6 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.40%) Bash
7 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.40%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.36%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.36%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) SOQL
9 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (18.37%) Degree
2 23 (15.65%) ISTQB
3 16 (10.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 10 (6.80%) HND
5 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.08%) ISEB
7 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.04%) BC Cleared
9 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.36%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.68%) ACCA
11 1 (0.68%) CIMA
11 1 (0.68%) MCSA
11 1 (0.68%) MCSE
11 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (38.10%) QA
2 19 (12.93%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.80%) SLA
4 9 (6.12%) GDPR
5 6 (4.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.72%) IFRS
7 3 (2.04%) IFRS 17
7 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.68%) GAAP
8 1 (0.68%) MiFID
8 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) HP ALM
3 5 (3.40%) Terraform
4 3 (2.04%) Ansible
5 2 (1.36%) Grafana
5 2 (1.36%) Nessus
5 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) SCCM
6 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (15.65%) SAP
2 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.20%) Oracle
4 13 (8.84%) Adobe
5 10 (6.80%) Freshdesk
5 10 (6.80%) IFS
5 10 (6.80%) Nintex
6 9 (6.12%) HP
7 7 (4.76%) Dell
7 7 (4.76%) Epicor
7 7 (4.76%) IBM
7 7 (4.76%) Infor
7 7 (4.76%) Informatica
7 7 (4.76%) Jitterbit
7 7 (4.76%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.76%) SnapLogic
7 7 (4.76%) Software AG
7 7 (4.76%) Talend
7 7 (4.76%) TIBCO
7 7 (4.76%) Workday