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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 552 503
Rank change year-on-year +31 -49 -34
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 118 207 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.36% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 80 109 177
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,225 £37,500 £40,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £79,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% -10.00%

All Process and 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 45,707 56,896 47,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 85.15% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,910 29,661 36,781
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,001 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +57 109 £55,000 +4.76% 66
UK excluding London +26 68 £45,500 +13.75% 64
Work from Home +77 49 £55,000 +4.76% 32
London +37 39 £57,500 -20.69% 27
South East +40 24 £62,500 +31.58% 28
North of England +13 20 £42,500 +13.33% 9
South West +15 13 £37,500 +8.70% 9
North West +35 10 £42,500 +2.41% 8
Yorkshire +16 8 £30,500 -6.11% 1
Midlands +49 6 £36,250 -30.29% 6
West Midlands +49 4 £35,000 -53.33% 6
Scotland -4 4 £55,000 +37.50% 6
East Midlands +17 2 £41,750 -17.33%
North East +12 2 £55,000 -
East of England +22 1 £68,500 +82.67% 4
Wales +7 1 £50,000 -47.37% 3

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 (5.93%) Anypoint
1 7 (5.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) nginx
2 1 (0.85%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (8.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.08%) Shopify
3 3 (2.54%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.85%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.85%) Magento
5 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.85%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.36%) Azure
2 27 (22.88%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.10%) AWS
4 11 (9.32%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (7.63%) GitHub
6 8 (6.78%) Power Automate
7 7 (5.93%) Boomi
7 7 (5.93%) iPaaS
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.93%) Workato
8 6 (5.08%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.24%) SaaS
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (2.54%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (2.54%) Datadog
11 3 (2.54%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Broadband
2 1 (0.85%) DHCP
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.54%) Mixpanel
2 3 (2.54%) Power BI
3 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (35.59%) JIRA
2 23 (19.49%) Selenium
3 11 (9.32%) Postman
4 10 (8.47%) Cypress.io
4 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.63%) eCATT
5 9 (7.63%) TestRail
6 8 (6.78%) Git
7 6 (5.08%) Zephyr
8 4 (3.39%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (3.39%) TestNG
8 4 (3.39%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.54%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (2.54%) Fiddler
9 3 (2.54%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.54%) Maven
9 3 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (2.54%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.69%) Appium
10 2 (1.69%) JMeter
General
1 52 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 41 (34.75%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (33.05%) Finance
4 21 (17.80%) Law
5 17 (14.41%) Legal
6 14 (11.86%) Marketing
7 12 (10.17%) Banking
7 12 (10.17%) Manufacturing
8 9 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.24%) Back Office
10 4 (3.39%) Electronics
10 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.54%) Military
11 3 (2.54%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.85%) Automotive
12 1 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (32.20%) Analyst
2 28 (23.73%) Test Analyst
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 12 (10.17%) Tester
5 11 (9.32%) QA Analyst
6 10 (8.47%) Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Automation Test Analyst
7 9 (7.63%) Test Manager
8 7 (5.93%) Consultant
8 7 (5.93%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) QA Test Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Software Tester
10 5 (4.24%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Manual Tester
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (4.24%) Software Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Support Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.86%) REST
2 13 (11.02%) .NET
3 11 (9.32%) Playwright
4 7 (5.93%) SOAP
5 6 (5.08%) RESTful
5 6 (5.08%) Web Services
5 6 (5.08%) XML
6 5 (4.24%) CSS
6 5 (4.24%) HTML
6 5 (4.24%) JSON
6 5 (4.24%) React
7 4 (3.39%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.54%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (1.69%) WPF
10 1 (0.85%) HTML5
10 1 (0.85%) Node.js
10 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (6.78%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.08%) Derivative
4 6 (5.08%) Equities
5 5 (4.24%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.54%) W3C
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.85%) FMCG
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Linux
2 7 (5.93%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (50.85%) Agile
2 58 (49.15%) Test Automation
3 41 (34.75%) Software Testing
4 37 (31.36%) Manual Testing
5 36 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (29.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (26.27%) CI/CD
8 30 (25.42%) DevOps
9 29 (24.58%) Test Strategy
10 27 (22.88%) Test Management
10 27 (22.88%) Test Scripting
11 26 (22.03%) ERP
12 25 (21.19%) End-to-End Testing
13 24 (20.34%) Integration Testing
13 24 (20.34%) Scenario Testing
14 23 (19.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 20 (16.95%) API Testing
15 20 (16.95%) SDLC
16 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (14.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.90%) SQL
2 23 (19.49%) Python
3 18 (15.25%) Java
3 18 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.71%) C#
5 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.24%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.39%) C
8 3 (2.54%) Bash
8 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.69%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.69%) SOQL
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (25.42%) ISTQB
2 19 (16.10%) Degree
3 16 (13.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 10 (8.47%) ISEB
5 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.85%) MCSA
9 1 (0.85%) MCSE
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.85%) PhD
9 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (43.22%) QA
2 9 (7.63%) GDPR
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) HP ALM
2 8 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.54%) Terraform
4 2 (1.69%) Grafana
4 2 (1.69%) Nessus
4 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
1 19 (16.10%) SAP
2 9 (7.63%) HP
2 9 (7.63%) Oracle
2 9 (7.63%) Workday
3 7 (5.93%) Dell
3 7 (5.93%) Epicor
3 7 (5.93%) IBM
3 7 (5.93%) IFS
3 7 (5.93%) Infor
3 7 (5.93%) Informatica
3 7 (5.93%) Jitterbit
3 7 (5.93%) MuleSoft
3 7 (5.93%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.93%) SnapLogic
3 7 (5.93%) Software AG
3 7 (5.93%) Talend
3 7 (5.93%) TIBCO
4 4 (3.39%) Adobe
4 4 (3.39%) Guidewire