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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 542 543
Rank change year-on-year -39 +1 -45
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 226 134 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 140 78 161
10th Percentile £33,388 £32,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £68,500 £64,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,125 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,625 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.81% +7.50% +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 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

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 12 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 12 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 -36 205 £52,500 -4.55% 202
UK excluding London -48 155 £50,625 -5.81% 126
Work from Home -32 70 £48,750 -11.36% 117
London -33 57 £70,000 +16.67% 86
South East -21 46 £52,500 -22.22% 43
North of England -40 34 £50,000 +15.61% 21
Midlands -16 28 £52,500 +50.00% 14
South West -63 27 £42,500 +0.59% 22
West Midlands -21 22 £50,625 +44.64% 9
North West -12 15 £46,750 -15.00% 13
East of England -16 12 £46,250 -26.00% 20
Yorkshire -47 10 £52,500 +72.13% 4
North East -57 9 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Scotland +10 7 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East Midlands -32 6 £70,000 +86.67% 5
Wales -69 2 £72,500 +20.83% 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 (2.21%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.10%) Simulink
3 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.77%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.30%) Azure
2 45 (19.91%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.72%) AWS
4 18 (7.96%) GCP
5 14 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.19%) SaaS
6 12 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.42%) Serverless
8 7 (3.10%) BrowserStack
8 7 (3.10%) GitHub
8 7 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.10%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.88%) Azure App Service
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Storage
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.10%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) GIS
5 1 (0.44%) Metadata
5 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.44%) Power Query
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 42 (18.58%) JIRA
2 35 (15.49%) Selenium
3 31 (13.72%) Git
4 27 (11.95%) Cypress.io
5 22 (9.73%) GitLab
6 19 (8.41%) Eclipse
7 17 (7.52%) Jenkins
8 15 (6.64%) Postman
9 13 (5.75%) Zephyr
10 12 (5.31%) JMeter
10 12 (5.31%) REST Assured
11 10 (4.42%) Subversion
12 8 (3.54%) TestRail
13 7 (3.10%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.65%) JUnit
15 5 (2.21%) Gatling
16 4 (1.77%) Appium
17 3 (1.33%) Eclipse RCP
17 3 (1.33%) Ranorex
17 3 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 80 (35.40%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (27.43%) Finance
4 22 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.64%) Electronics
6 15 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (6.19%) Retail
8 8 (3.54%) Marketing
9 7 (3.10%) Law
9 7 (3.10%) Legal
9 7 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.65%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.77%) Billing
12 3 (1.33%) Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (17.70%) Lead
2 38 (16.81%) QA Engineer
2 38 (16.81%) Test Engineer
3 37 (16.37%) Analyst
3 37 (16.37%) Senior
4 26 (11.50%) Tester
5 14 (6.19%) Developer
6 13 (5.75%) QA Leader
7 12 (5.31%) Test Analyst
8 11 (4.87%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.87%) Junior
8 11 (4.87%) QA Tester
8 11 (4.87%) Senior QA Engineer
9 9 (3.98%) Test Leader
10 8 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.54%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.93%) Playwright
2 22 (9.73%) REST
3 14 (6.19%) RESTful
4 13 (5.75%) React
5 11 (4.87%) CSS
5 11 (4.87%) HTML
6 9 (3.98%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (3.98%) JSON
6 9 (3.98%) Struts
6 9 (3.98%) Web Services
7 7 (3.10%) .NET
7 7 (3.10%) Node.js
7 7 (3.10%) XML
8 5 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.21%) Terraform
9 4 (1.77%) React Native
9 4 (1.77%) Swagger
10 3 (1.33%) Kafka
10 3 (1.33%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.33%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.62%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.10%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.10%) SCADA
6 4 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Life Science
7 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.88%) CMDB
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.41%) Linux
2 17 (7.52%) Android
3 15 (6.64%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.75%) Windows
5 9 (3.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (57.96%) Test Automation
2 117 (51.77%) Agile
3 100 (44.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 91 (40.27%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (38.05%) Validation
6 80 (35.40%) Software Testing
7 68 (30.09%) CI/CD
8 58 (25.66%) DevOps
8 58 (25.66%) SDLC
9 53 (23.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 49 (21.68%) Test Strategy
11 46 (20.35%) Manual Testing
12 45 (19.91%) Defect Management
13 39 (17.26%) Code Quality
13 39 (17.26%) Scrum
14 37 (16.37%) Test Scripting
15 34 (15.04%) Mentoring
16 31 (13.72%) Exploratory Testing
17 29 (12.83%) Acceptance Criteria
17 29 (12.83%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.24%) SQL
2 38 (16.81%) Java
3 34 (15.04%) Python
4 29 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.87%) C#
5 11 (4.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.98%) C++
6 9 (3.98%) Perl
7 7 (3.10%) C
7 7 (3.10%) Embedded C
7 7 (3.10%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.21%) Groovy
9 4 (1.77%) Bash
9 4 (1.77%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.77%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.44%) ABAP
11 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.44%) Go
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (21.24%) Degree
2 30 (13.27%) ISTQB
3 27 (11.95%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.52%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.54%) HNC
5 8 (3.54%) HND
6 6 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.21%) AAT
8 4 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.77%) OCA
8 4 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.33%) ISEB
10 2 (0.88%) ACCA
10 2 (0.88%) CIMA
10 2 (0.88%) CSQA
11 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (51.33%) QA
2 20 (8.85%) Data Quality
3 14 (6.19%) GDPR
4 12 (5.31%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.65%) WCAG
6 5 (2.21%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.88%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.64%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (3.10%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.54%) Grafana
3 5 (2.21%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Kibana
5 2 (0.88%) logstash
5 2 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.75%) Oracle
3 10 (4.42%) SAP
4 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.54%) Workday
5 5 (2.21%) Google
5 5 (2.21%) IFS
5 5 (2.21%) Intel
6 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.88%) Databricks
6 2 (0.88%) IBM
6 2 (0.88%) Informatica
6 2 (0.88%) Intapp
6 2 (0.88%) VMware
7 1 (0.44%) Callidus
7 1 (0.44%) Concur
7 1 (0.44%) Conga
7 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.44%) GoCardless