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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 539 537
Rank change year-on-year -46 -2 -24
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 228 137 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 141 81 162
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £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 £68,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 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 11 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 -36 207 £52,500 -4.55% 162
UK excluding London -39 156 £50,000 -4.76% 109
Work from Home -35 69 £48,750 -10.14% 69
London -43 58 £70,000 +16.67% 62
South East -30 46 £52,500 -22.22% 39
North of England -26 34 £50,000 +15.61% 16
Midlands -27 27 £52,500 +50.00% 14
South West -60 27 £42,500 +6.25% 21
West Midlands -14 21 £50,625 +44.64% 10
North West -15 15 £46,750 -15.00% 9
East of England -16 14 £37,500 -40.00% 15
Yorkshire -44 10 £52,500 +72.13% 5
North East -51 9 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Scotland +10 7 £62,500 +13.64% 3
East Midlands -30 6 £70,000 +86.67% 4
Wales -67 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 (2.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.07%) Simulink
3 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.75%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.32%) NetSuite
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 (32.02%) Azure
2 45 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.60%) AWS
4 18 (7.89%) GCP
5 14 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.14%) SaaS
6 12 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.39%) Serverless
8 7 (3.07%) BrowserStack
8 7 (3.07%) GitHub
8 7 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.07%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.32%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.51%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.07%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.32%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.32%) 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 (18.42%) JIRA
2 36 (15.79%) Selenium
3 32 (14.04%) Git
4 28 (12.28%) Cypress.io
5 22 (9.65%) GitLab
6 19 (8.33%) Eclipse
7 17 (7.46%) Jenkins
8 15 (6.58%) Postman
9 13 (5.70%) Zephyr
10 12 (5.26%) JMeter
10 12 (5.26%) REST Assured
11 10 (4.39%) Subversion
12 8 (3.51%) TestRail
13 7 (3.07%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.63%) JUnit
15 5 (2.19%) Gatling
16 4 (1.75%) Appium
17 3 (1.32%) Eclipse RCP
17 3 (1.32%) Ranorex
17 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 80 (35.09%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (27.19%) Finance
4 22 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.02%) Electronics
7 15 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.14%) Retail
9 8 (3.51%) Marketing
10 7 (3.07%) Law
10 7 (3.07%) Legal
10 7 (3.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.63%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Billing
12 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.32%) Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (17.54%) Lead
2 39 (17.11%) Test Engineer
3 38 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 37 (16.23%) Analyst
4 37 (16.23%) Senior
5 26 (11.40%) Tester
6 14 (6.14%) Developer
7 13 (5.70%) QA Leader
7 13 (5.70%) Test Analyst
8 11 (4.82%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.82%) Junior
8 11 (4.82%) QA Tester
8 11 (4.82%) Senior QA Engineer
9 9 (3.95%) Test Leader
10 8 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.51%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.23%) Playwright
2 22 (9.65%) REST
3 14 (6.14%) RESTful
4 13 (5.70%) React
5 11 (4.82%) CSS
5 11 (4.82%) HTML
6 9 (3.95%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (3.95%) JSON
6 9 (3.95%) Struts
6 9 (3.95%) Web Services
7 7 (3.07%) .NET
7 7 (3.07%) Node.js
7 7 (3.07%) XML
8 5 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.19%) Terraform
9 4 (1.75%) React Native
9 4 (1.75%) Swagger
10 3 (1.32%) Kafka
10 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.32%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.51%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.07%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.07%) SCADA
6 5 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.32%) Life Science
8 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.88%) CMDB
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.33%) Linux
2 17 (7.46%) Android
3 15 (6.58%) Apple iOS
4 14 (6.14%) Windows
5 9 (3.95%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 118 (51.75%) Agile
3 100 (43.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 93 (40.79%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (38.16%) Validation
6 82 (35.96%) Software Testing
7 69 (30.26%) CI/CD
8 59 (25.88%) SDLC
9 58 (25.44%) DevOps
10 53 (23.25%) User Acceptance Testing
11 49 (21.49%) Test Strategy
12 46 (20.18%) Manual Testing
13 45 (19.74%) Defect Management
14 41 (17.98%) Scrum
15 39 (17.11%) Code Quality
16 36 (15.79%) Test Scripting
17 34 (14.91%) Mentoring
18 31 (13.60%) Exploratory Testing
19 30 (13.16%) Test Planning
20 29 (12.72%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.05%) SQL
2 39 (17.11%) Java
3 35 (15.35%) Python
4 29 (12.72%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.26%) C#
5 12 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.95%) C++
6 9 (3.95%) Perl
7 7 (3.07%) C
7 7 (3.07%) Embedded C
7 7 (3.07%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.19%) Groovy
9 4 (1.75%) Bash
9 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.75%) 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 49 (21.49%) Degree
2 32 (14.04%) ISTQB
3 27 (11.84%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.51%) HNC
6 8 (3.51%) HND
7 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (2.19%) AAT
8 5 (2.19%) ISEB
9 4 (1.75%) OCA
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.88%) ACCA
10 2 (0.88%) CIMA
10 2 (0.88%) CSQA
11 1 (0.44%) CBAP
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (50.88%) QA
2 19 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.70%) GDPR
4 6 (2.63%) WCAG
5 5 (2.19%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.88%) GxP
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.58%) Docker
2 9 (3.95%) Firmware
3 7 (3.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.51%) Grafana
3 5 (2.19%) Ansible
4 3 (1.32%) 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 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.70%) Oracle
3 11 (4.82%) SAP
4 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.07%) Workday
6 5 (2.19%) Google
6 5 (2.19%) IFS
6 5 (2.19%) Intel
7 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.88%) Databricks
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Informatica
7 2 (0.88%) Intapp
7 2 (0.88%) VMware
8 1 (0.44%) Callidus
8 1 (0.44%) Concur
8 1 (0.44%) Conga
8 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.44%) GoCardless