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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 506 558
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 -86
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 178 167 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 117 98 202
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,938 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,875 £64,688
90th Percentile £71,250 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%

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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -17 156 £55,000 +15.79% 102
UK excluding London -29 117 £47,500 +11.76% 66
Work from Home +30 63 £55,000 +17.02% 42
London +32 47 £57,500 -28.13% 40
South East -14 33 £52,500 +10.53% 19
South West -3 29 £47,500 +37.68% 6
Midlands -15 18 £55,000 +29.41% 9
North of England -48 18 £42,500 -9.57% 16
North West -20 13 £42,500 -9.57% 12
Scotland -3 12 - - 1
East Midlands -27 11 £55,000 +8.91% 4
West Midlands -5 7 £55,250 +36.42% 5
East of England 0 5 £66,750 +66.88% 17
Yorkshire -40 4 £26,000 -16.45% 2
Wales -10 2 £52,500 -
North East -14 1 £55,000 +61.76% 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 (3.93%) Anypoint
2 4 (2.25%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (7.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.37%) Shopify
3 2 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.56%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.56%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.65%) Azure
2 49 (27.53%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.55%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.87%) AWS
6 11 (6.18%) SaaS
7 7 (3.93%) Boomi
7 7 (3.93%) iPaaS
7 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.93%) Workato
8 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.25%) GCP
9 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.12%) OCI
10 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.12%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.56%) Sentry
11 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.43%) Power BI
3 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (20.79%) JIRA
2 28 (15.73%) Selenium
3 18 (10.11%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.06%) eCATT
4 9 (5.06%) TestRail
5 7 (3.93%) Subversion
6 5 (2.81%) Git
6 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.81%) Postman
6 5 (2.81%) SpecFlow
6 5 (2.81%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.69%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (1.69%) TestDirector
9 2 (1.12%) Fiddler
9 2 (1.12%) GitLab
9 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.09%) Finance
3 37 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.99%) Law
5 14 (7.87%) Billing
6 13 (7.30%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.74%) Banking
7 12 (6.74%) Marketing
8 11 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (3.93%) Advertising
12 7 (3.93%) Back Office
12 7 (3.93%) Electronics
12 7 (3.93%) Legal
13 5 (2.81%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
14 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (32.58%) Analyst
2 32 (17.98%) Lead
3 23 (12.92%) Test Analyst
4 18 (10.11%) Tester
5 16 (8.99%) QA Leader
6 14 (7.87%) QA Engineer
6 14 (7.87%) Test Leader
7 13 (7.30%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.30%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (7.30%) Senior
7 13 (7.30%) Support Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Junior
9 11 (6.18%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (5.06%) Automation Test Analyst
12 8 (4.49%) QA Analyst
12 8 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.93%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Senior Technical Analyst
13 7 (3.93%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.85%) Playwright
2 15 (8.43%) REST
3 14 (7.87%) XML
4 11 (6.18%) .NET
5 10 (5.62%) JSON
6 6 (3.37%) CSS
6 6 (3.37%) HTML
6 6 (3.37%) React
6 6 (3.37%) SOAP
6 6 (3.37%) Web Services
7 5 (2.81%) RESTful
8 4 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.69%) Visualforce
10 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.12%) Node.js
10 2 (1.12%) WPF
11 1 (0.56%) Middleware
11 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.24%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.30%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.18%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.37%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.81%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.81%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.25%) Derivative
7 4 (2.25%) Equities
7 4 (2.25%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.56%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.56%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.74%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Windows
3 6 (3.37%) Android
3 6 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.81%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.12%) Test Automation
2 73 (41.01%) Agile
3 53 (29.78%) Manual Testing
4 52 (29.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (28.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 49 (27.53%) DevOps
7 47 (26.40%) Software Testing
8 45 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (19.10%) Test Scripting
11 29 (16.29%) CI/CD
11 29 (16.29%) ERP
12 27 (15.17%) Validation
13 26 (14.61%) API Testing
13 26 (14.61%) SDLC
13 26 (14.61%) Test Management
14 25 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (13.48%) Customer Service
16 23 (12.92%) Acceptance Criteria
16 23 (12.92%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (24.16%) SQL
2 21 (11.80%) Python
3 19 (10.67%) Java
4 16 (8.99%) C#
5 14 (7.87%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.81%) Bash
7 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.69%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.12%) Go
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) SOQL
10 1 (0.56%) SOSL
10 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (15.73%) Degree
2 21 (11.80%) ISTQB
3 15 (8.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (6.74%) HND
5 11 (6.18%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.81%) ISEB
7 4 (2.25%) BC Cleared
7 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) ACCA
9 1 (0.56%) CIMA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (37.08%) QA
2 25 (14.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.74%) SLA
4 9 (5.06%) GDPR
5 4 (2.25%) IFRS
5 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.69%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.69%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GAAP
7 1 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Firmware
2 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.06%) HP ALM
3 5 (2.81%) Terraform
4 3 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 2 (1.12%) Nessus
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (14.61%) SAP
2 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.55%) Oracle
4 12 (6.74%) Adobe
4 12 (6.74%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.74%) Nintex
5 10 (5.62%) IFS
6 9 (5.06%) HP
7 7 (3.93%) Dell
7 7 (3.93%) Epicor
7 7 (3.93%) IBM
7 7 (3.93%) Infor
7 7 (3.93%) Informatica
7 7 (3.93%) Jitterbit
7 7 (3.93%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.93%) SnapLogic
7 7 (3.93%) Software AG
7 7 (3.93%) Talend
7 7 (3.93%) TIBCO
7 7 (3.93%) Workday