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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 515 516
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -51
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 131 195 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.39% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 93 109 144
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,750 £34,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £62,527
90th Percentile £72,450 £94,250 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.89%

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 48,456 49,466 47,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.78% 90.03% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,392 24,433 36,177
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +17 124 £55,000 +5.26% 65
UK excluding London -5 81 £42,500 +6.25% 59
Work from Home +77 62 £55,000 +4.76% 25
London +35 43 £58,000 -17.14% 12
South East +22 27 £62,500 +31.58% 14
North of England +8 17 £30,500 -18.67% 12
South West +16 16 £36,375 +5.43% 9
Midlands +11 14 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire 0 10 £30,500 -6.11% 6
West Midlands +19 8 £50,125 +13.92% 5
North West +19 6 £42,500 +2.41% 5
East Midlands -19 6 £55,000 +8.91% 2
Scotland -12 5 - - 6
East of England +17 1 £68,500 +76.77% 12
North East +5 1 £55,000 - 1
Wales +1 1 £50,000 -47.37% 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 7 (5.34%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.58%) Shopify
3 3 (2.29%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.53%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.76%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.76%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.76%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.76%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.53%) Azure
2 34 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (10.69%) AWS
4 13 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.87%) SaaS
6 7 (5.34%) Boomi
6 7 (5.34%) iPaaS
6 7 (5.34%) Power Automate
6 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.34%) Workato
7 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.82%) GitHub
8 3 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.29%) Datadog
9 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.53%) GCP
9 2 (1.53%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) DHCP
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.21%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.82%) Power BI
3 3 (2.29%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (34.35%) JIRA
2 19 (14.50%) Selenium
3 11 (8.40%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.87%) eCATT
4 9 (6.87%) Postman
4 9 (6.87%) TestRail
5 7 (5.34%) Git
5 7 (5.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.58%) Charles Proxy
6 6 (4.58%) Subversion
6 6 (4.58%) Zephyr
7 5 (3.82%) Fiddler
8 4 (3.05%) TestNG
8 4 (3.05%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (2.29%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.29%) Maven
9 3 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.53%) JMeter
General
1 58 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.77%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (29.77%) Finance
3 22 (16.79%) Law
4 14 (10.69%) Legal
4 14 (10.69%) Marketing
5 12 (9.16%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.87%) Electronics
6 9 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.34%) Back Office
7 7 (5.34%) Banking
8 5 (3.82%) Billing
8 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Retail
9 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Analyst
2 28 (21.37%) Test Analyst
3 17 (12.98%) Lead
4 16 (12.21%) Senior
5 15 (11.45%) Tester
6 10 (7.63%) QA Analyst
7 9 (6.87%) Automation Test Analyst
8 8 (6.11%) Consultant
8 8 (6.11%) Test Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Test Manager
9 7 (5.34%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) QA Test Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Support Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.58%) Manual Tester
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.40%) Playwright
2 10 (7.63%) .NET
2 10 (7.63%) REST
3 7 (5.34%) SOAP
4 6 (4.58%) RESTful
4 6 (4.58%) Web Services
4 6 (4.58%) XML
5 5 (3.82%) JSON
5 5 (3.82%) React
6 4 (3.05%) CSS
6 4 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (3.05%) HTML
7 3 (2.29%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.53%) WPF
9 1 (0.76%) Kafka
9 1 (0.76%) Node.js
9 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.82%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.82%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.05%) Derivative
5 4 (3.05%) Equities
5 4 (3.05%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.29%) Over-the-Top Content
6 3 (2.29%) W3C
7 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.76%) FMCG
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) PKI
8 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) Android
3 6 (4.58%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.91%) Test Automation
2 62 (47.33%) Agile
3 45 (34.35%) Software Testing
4 43 (32.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (29.01%) Manual Testing
6 37 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (25.95%) DevOps
8 31 (23.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 30 (22.90%) Test Scripting
10 28 (21.37%) Test Management
11 27 (20.61%) Test Strategy
12 25 (19.08%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
13 23 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (16.79%) Integration Testing
14 22 (16.79%) Scenario Testing
15 21 (16.03%) ERP
16 20 (15.27%) Roadmaps
16 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (14.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.95%) SQL
2 21 (16.03%) Python
3 17 (12.98%) Java
4 16 (12.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.92%) C#
6 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.05%) Bash
8 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.53%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.53%) SOQL
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) ISTQB
2 19 (14.50%) Degree
3 17 (12.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (5.34%) ISEB
5 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.82%) HND
7 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.05%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.53%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.76%) MCSA
10 1 (0.76%) MCSE
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.76%) PhD
10 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (39.69%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.11%) GDPR
3 5 (3.82%) SLA
4 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) IFRS
6 1 (0.76%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Docker
2 6 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.87%) HP ALM
2 8 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.05%) Terraform
4 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Grafana
4 2 (1.53%) Nessus
4 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.27%) SAP
3 13 (9.92%) Oracle
4 9 (6.87%) HP
5 8 (6.11%) Adobe
6 7 (5.34%) Dell
6 7 (5.34%) Epicor
6 7 (5.34%) IBM
6 7 (5.34%) IFS
6 7 (5.34%) Infor
6 7 (5.34%) Informatica
6 7 (5.34%) Jitterbit
6 7 (5.34%) MuleSoft
6 7 (5.34%) SnapLogic
6 7 (5.34%) Software AG
6 7 (5.34%) Talend
6 7 (5.34%) TIBCO
6 7 (5.34%) Workday
7 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.82%) Freshdesk