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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 521 549
Rank change year-on-year -39 +28 -36
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 223 151 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 137 88 176
10th Percentile £35,200 £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 £65,000 £64,063 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%

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 79,954 44,458 67,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.81% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,419 25,298 42,226
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -38 201 £52,500 -3.23% 280
UK excluding London -46 149 £52,500 - 178
Work from Home -51 70 £52,500 -1.87% 106
London -44 59 £67,500 +12.50% 124
South East -21 45 £52,500 -22.22% 54
North of England -35 33 £50,000 +10.80% 38
South West -54 27 £45,000 +1.12% 27
Midlands -16 23 £53,750 +43.33% 21
North West -5 17 £42,500 -19.05% 26
West Midlands -24 16 £51,250 +41.38% 17
East of England -17 13 £46,250 -26.00% 22
Yorkshire -36 8 £52,500 +72.13% 6
North East -56 8 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Scotland +8 7 £62,500 +13.64% 8
East Midlands -16 7 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Wales -64 2 £72,500 +12.84% 4

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 (2.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.79%) Simulink
4 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.79%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 74 (33.18%) Azure
2 47 (21.08%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.90%) AWS
4 18 (8.07%) GCP
5 13 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (5.38%) SaaS
7 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.04%) Serverless
9 7 (3.14%) BrowserStack
9 7 (3.14%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (2.69%) GitHub
10 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.90%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.79%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
1 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.90%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.45%) GIS
3 1 (0.45%) Metadata
3 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (18.83%) JIRA
2 35 (15.70%) Selenium
3 34 (15.25%) Git
4 27 (12.11%) Cypress.io
5 21 (9.42%) GitLab
6 16 (7.17%) Eclipse
6 16 (7.17%) Jenkins
7 15 (6.73%) Postman
8 13 (5.83%) Zephyr
9 12 (5.38%) REST Assured
10 10 (4.48%) JMeter
10 10 (4.48%) Subversion
11 8 (3.59%) TestRail
12 7 (3.14%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.69%) JUnit
14 5 (2.24%) Gatling
15 4 (1.79%) WebDriver
16 3 (1.35%) Eclipse RCP
16 3 (1.35%) HP UFT
16 3 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 95 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 75 (33.63%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (27.35%) Finance
4 21 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (6.28%) Retail
8 11 (4.93%) Electronics
9 8 (3.59%) Marketing
10 7 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.14%) Law
10 7 (3.14%) Legal
11 6 (2.69%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.79%) Billing
13 4 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.90%) Advertising
14 2 (0.90%) Banking
15 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.04%) Senior
2 37 (16.59%) Lead
2 37 (16.59%) QA Engineer
3 36 (16.14%) Test Engineer
4 34 (15.25%) Analyst
5 27 (12.11%) Tester
6 16 (7.17%) Developer
7 14 (6.28%) QA Leader
8 13 (5.83%) Test Analyst
9 12 (5.38%) Junior
10 11 (4.93%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.93%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.93%) Senior QA Engineer
11 9 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.04%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.04%) Test Leader
12 8 (3.59%) Automation Tester
12 8 (3.59%) Junior Developer
12 8 (3.59%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.14%) Playwright
2 24 (10.76%) REST
3 14 (6.28%) RESTful
4 13 (5.83%) React
5 10 (4.48%) CSS
5 10 (4.48%) HTML
5 10 (4.48%) JSON
6 9 (4.04%) .NET
6 9 (4.04%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (4.04%) Struts
6 9 (4.04%) Web Services
7 6 (2.69%) Node.js
7 6 (2.69%) XML
8 5 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.24%) SOAP
8 5 (2.24%) Terraform
9 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.79%) React Native
9 4 (1.79%) Swagger
9 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.00%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.31%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.59%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.24%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.24%) SCADA
6 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.35%) Life Science
7 3 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.07%) Linux
2 16 (7.17%) Android
3 14 (6.28%) Apple iOS
3 14 (6.28%) Windows
4 9 (4.04%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (57.85%) Test Automation
2 115 (51.57%) Agile
3 101 (45.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 92 (41.26%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (35.87%) Validation
6 78 (34.98%) Software Testing
7 69 (30.94%) CI/CD
8 61 (27.35%) DevOps
9 60 (26.91%) SDLC
10 54 (24.22%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (21.52%) Test Strategy
12 45 (20.18%) Manual Testing
13 43 (19.28%) Defect Management
14 39 (17.49%) Scrum
15 36 (16.14%) Code Quality
15 36 (16.14%) Test Scripting
16 35 (15.70%) Mentoring
17 31 (13.90%) Exploratory Testing
18 28 (12.56%) End-to-End Testing
19 27 (12.11%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.18%) SQL
2 37 (16.59%) Java
3 36 (16.14%) Python
4 27 (12.11%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.83%) C#
6 11 (4.93%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.04%) C++
7 9 (4.04%) Perl
8 5 (2.24%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.24%) Groovy
9 4 (1.79%) Bash
9 4 (1.79%) C
9 4 (1.79%) Embedded C
9 4 (1.79%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) SOQL
10 2 (0.90%) SOSL
11 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (20.18%) Degree
2 28 (12.56%) ISTQB
3 27 (12.11%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.59%) HNC
5 8 (3.59%) HND
6 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.24%) AAT
7 5 (2.24%) ISEB
8 4 (1.79%) OCA
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.90%) ACCA
9 2 (0.90%) CIMA
9 2 (0.90%) CSQA
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (52.47%) QA
2 18 (8.07%) Data Quality
3 14 (6.28%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.93%) GDPR
5 6 (2.69%) WCAG
6 4 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) GxP
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Firmware
3 4 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.59%) Grafana
3 5 (2.24%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) logstash
5 2 (0.90%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
6 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.83%) Oracle
3 11 (4.93%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.48%) SAP
5 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Workday
7 5 (2.24%) Google
7 5 (2.24%) IFS
7 5 (2.24%) Intel
8 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.90%) Databricks
8 2 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Intapp
8 2 (0.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.45%) Callidus
9 1 (0.45%) Concur
9 1 (0.45%) Conga
9 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.45%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.45%) Perfecto Mobile