Regression Testing Jobs

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 545 495
Rank change year-on-year -45 -50 -50
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 261 381 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.47% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.50% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 184 227 581
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £84,999
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 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 26 July 2024. 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 -69 210 £52,500 - 32
UK excluding London -77 190 £50,000 +5.26% 28
Work from Home +57 109 £52,500 +7.69% 16
London +23 58 £62,500 +15.21% 10
South East -36 50 £57,500 +15.00% 12
North of England -25 35 £42,500 -13.16% 4
Scotland -30 34 £35,000 -22.22% 1
South West +5 29 £40,000 +10.34% 3
West Midlands +9 24 £50,000 +29.87% 3
Midlands -13 24 £50,000 +33.33% 4
Yorkshire +53 22 £45,000 -21.74% 2
East of England -17 12 £70,000 +12.00%
North West -27 12 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Wales +27 6 £95,000 -
North East -21 1 £38,500 +24.19%

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Notion
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Endur
2 2 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.77%) SAP MII
2 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.38%) SAP SM
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.09%) Azure
2 24 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.36%) SaaS
4 11 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.45%) AWS
5 9 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
6 8 (3.07%) GitHub
7 6 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.30%) PaaS
8 5 (1.92%) GCP
9 4 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.15%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.77%) Serverless
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.38%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) HTTP
2 2 (0.77%) DHCP
2 2 (0.77%) DNS
2 2 (0.77%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.92%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.92%) Redis
3 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.77%) MySQL
4 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.77%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.38%) Metadata
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (21.46%) Git
2 48 (18.39%) Selenium
3 47 (18.01%) JIRA
4 23 (8.81%) Cypress.io
5 22 (8.43%) JMeter
6 20 (7.66%) Postman
7 16 (6.13%) Jenkins
8 15 (5.75%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.21%) MSTest
10 9 (3.45%) GitLab
10 9 (3.45%) Gradle
10 9 (3.45%) Maven
10 9 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (3.07%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.68%) Appium
12 7 (2.68%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.92%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.92%) HP UFT
13 5 (1.92%) IntelliJ
13 5 (1.92%) LoadRunner
General
1 164 (62.84%) Social Skills
2 80 (30.65%) Finance
3 78 (29.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (5.75%) Retail
6 14 (5.36%) Law
7 13 (4.98%) Marketing
8 10 (3.83%) Legal
9 9 (3.45%) Electronics
10 7 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.30%) Banking
12 4 (1.53%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.53%) Local Government
12 4 (1.53%) Police
13 3 (1.15%) Back Office
13 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 58 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 55 (21.07%) Senior
3 45 (17.24%) Developer
4 41 (15.71%) Tester
5 38 (14.56%) Analyst
6 28 (10.73%) Test Analyst
7 27 (10.34%) Software Test Engineer
8 24 (9.20%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.05%) QA Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Lead
11 11 (4.21%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Automation Tester
12 10 (3.83%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Test Manager
13 9 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) QA Software Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) Software Tester
14 7 (2.68%) Head of Testing
14 7 (2.68%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.77%) REST
2 41 (15.71%) Web Services
3 38 (14.56%) Kafka
3 38 (14.56%) RabbitMQ
4 37 (14.18%) GraphQL
4 37 (14.18%) gRPC
5 19 (7.28%) Playwright
6 17 (6.51%) HTML
7 16 (6.13%) React
8 14 (5.36%) Spring
9 12 (4.60%) CSS
10 9 (3.45%) Ext JS
10 9 (3.45%) Spring Boot
11 8 (3.07%) Node.js
12 7 (2.68%) SOAP
13 6 (2.30%) .NET
13 6 (2.30%) Servlets
14 5 (1.92%) RESTful
14 5 (1.92%) WebdriverIO
14 5 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.58%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (8.81%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 16 (6.13%) IoT
5 10 (3.83%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.45%) Market Risk
7 6 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.92%) Derivative
8 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.15%) Equities
10 3 (1.15%) FMCG
10 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.49%) Linux
2 28 (10.73%) Windows
3 5 (1.92%) AIX
4 3 (1.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) Android
5 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (55.94%) Test Automation
2 142 (54.41%) Agile
3 125 (47.89%) Software Testing
4 85 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (32.18%) Test Scripting
6 78 (29.89%) CI/CD
7 75 (28.74%) Continuous Integration
8 59 (22.61%) TDD
9 52 (19.92%) Microservices
9 52 (19.92%) Performance Testing
10 51 (19.54%) Software Engineering
11 49 (18.77%) Continuous Deployment
11 49 (18.77%) Functional Testing
11 49 (18.77%) SDLC
12 46 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (17.62%) DevOps
12 46 (17.62%) User Acceptance Testing
13 45 (17.24%) Test Strategy
14 43 (16.48%) Computer Science
15 39 (14.94%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.67%) SQL
2 61 (23.37%) Python
3 52 (19.92%) JavaScript
4 49 (18.77%) Java
5 38 (14.56%) Go
6 22 (8.43%) C#
7 16 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.92%) C
8 5 (1.92%) C++
9 4 (1.53%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.77%) Bash
10 2 (0.77%) Groovy
10 2 (0.77%) PHP
10 2 (0.77%) VB
11 1 (0.38%) ABAP
11 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (29.89%) Degree
2 52 (19.92%) ISTQB
3 34 (13.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (8.05%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.83%) ISEB
6 7 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.30%) PhD
8 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.77%) CIPD
11 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.38%) MCSE
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (41.00%) QA
2 6 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.77%) GDPR
3 2 (0.77%) MISRA
3 2 (0.77%) MISRA C
3 2 (0.77%) PMO
3 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (16.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Firmware
3 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.77%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.07%) Grafana
2 5 (1.92%) Kibana
3 4 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) SCCM
4 1 (0.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.83%) Google
2 10 (3.83%) SAP
3 9 (3.45%) TOWER Software
4 6 (2.30%) Oracle
5 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.92%) Splunk
6 4 (1.53%) VMware
7 2 (0.77%) ANSYS
7 2 (0.77%) AVEVA
7 2 (0.77%) Databricks
7 2 (0.77%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.38%) Aderant
8 1 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.38%) Capita
8 1 (0.38%) Conga
8 1 (0.38%) IFS
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud