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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 477 586
Rank change year-on-year -60 +109 -97
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 200 174 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.44% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 125 104 228
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £59,500 £59,249 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%

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 May 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 May 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 -50 174 £52,500 +10.53% 74
UK excluding London -44 133 £47,500 +5.56% 59
Work from Home -10 59 £55,000 +17.02% 36
London -16 53 £62,500 -3.85% 26
South East -25 39 £46,250 -5.13% 20
North of England -24 26 £37,500 -20.21% 11
South West -49 25 £47,500 +37.68% 7
Midlands -30 22 £55,000 +35.80% 9
North West -11 17 £37,500 -20.21% 9
Scotland +6 12 - - 5
East Midlands -29 11 £55,000 +44.74% 4
West Midlands -40 11 £55,000 +35.80% 5
East of England -21 7 £62,500 -1.96% 6
Yorkshire -37 6 £26,000 -38.82% 1
Wales -36 3 £72,500 +5.84%
North East -40 3 £46,886 +33.96% 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 3 (1.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.50%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.00%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.50%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.50%) Azure
2 48 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.00%) AWS
4 17 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.00%) SaaS
6 10 (5.00%) Serverless
7 7 (3.50%) GCP
8 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.00%) GitHub
8 4 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.00%) Power BI
2 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.50%) Metadata
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (19.00%) JIRA
2 33 (16.50%) Selenium
3 20 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 16 (8.00%) Git
5 12 (6.00%) Jenkins
6 10 (5.00%) TestRail
6 10 (5.00%) Zephyr
7 9 (4.50%) Postman
8 8 (4.00%) Subversion
9 7 (3.50%) GitLab
9 7 (3.50%) WebDriver
10 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.00%) SpecFlow
11 4 (2.00%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.50%) Appium
12 3 (1.50%) JMeter
12 3 (1.50%) JUnit
12 3 (1.50%) Maven
12 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
13 2 (1.00%) TestDirector
General
1 84 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.50%) Finance
3 46 (23.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.00%) Billing
5 14 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.00%) Banking
6 10 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.00%) Electronics
7 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.00%) Marketing
7 8 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Advertising
8 7 (3.50%) Law
9 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (2.50%) Legal
11 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.00%) Retail
12 3 (1.50%) Back Office
12 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (26.50%) Lead
2 42 (21.00%) Analyst
3 24 (12.00%) QA Leader
4 21 (10.50%) Senior
4 21 (10.50%) Tester
5 18 (9.00%) Test Leader
6 17 (8.50%) QA Engineer
7 15 (7.50%) Test Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Junior
9 13 (6.50%) Technical Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.00%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Support Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Test Analyst
14 8 (4.00%) Support Engineer
14 8 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
14 8 (4.00%) Technical Support
14 8 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.00%) Playwright
2 15 (7.50%) .NET
3 14 (7.00%) REST
4 8 (4.00%) XML
5 7 (3.50%) JSON
6 6 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (3.00%) React
6 6 (3.00%) Visualforce
7 4 (2.00%) RESTful
8 3 (1.50%) CSS
8 3 (1.50%) HTML
8 3 (1.50%) WireMock
9 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.00%) JWT
9 2 (1.00%) Node.js
9 2 (1.00%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.00%) pytest
9 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.00%) SOAP
9 2 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.50%) Mobile Computing
6 4 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.50%) CAN bus
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.00%) Android
1 10 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.50%) Linux
3 4 (2.00%) Windows
4 3 (1.50%) Unix
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (54.00%) Test Automation
2 91 (45.50%) Agile
3 65 (32.50%) Software Testing
4 62 (31.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 61 (30.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (29.50%) DevOps
7 54 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (24.50%) CI/CD
9 43 (21.50%) SDLC
10 42 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (20.50%) Manual Testing
12 38 (19.00%) Validation
13 33 (16.50%) Test Strategy
14 31 (15.50%) Mentoring
15 30 (15.00%) Test Scripting
16 29 (14.50%) Acceptance Criteria
16 29 (14.50%) Waterfall
17 28 (14.00%) Process Improvement
17 28 (14.00%) Scrum
18 25 (12.50%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.50%) SQL
2 22 (11.00%) Java
3 20 (10.00%) Python
4 19 (9.50%) C#
5 11 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.50%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.00%) Groovy
8 4 (2.00%) Ruby
9 3 (1.50%) Perl
9 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.00%) Bash
10 2 (1.00%) Go
10 2 (1.00%) SOQL
10 2 (1.00%) SOSL
11 1 (0.50%) ABAP
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 46 (23.00%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) HND
3 19 (9.50%) ISTQB
4 11 (5.50%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.00%) HNC
6 6 (3.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.00%) BC Cleared
7 4 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) CSQA
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) CBAP
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (42.50%) QA
2 28 (14.00%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.00%) SLA
4 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.50%) GDPR
6 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.50%) IFRS
7 3 (1.50%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.00%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.50%) GAAP
9 1 (0.50%) MiFID
9 1 (0.50%) PMO
9 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Firmware
3 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 8 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) Ansible
2 4 (2.00%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) logstash
4 2 (1.00%) Packer
4 2 (1.00%) SCCM
4 2 (1.00%) SCOM
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.50%) SAP
3 12 (6.00%) Adobe
3 12 (6.00%) Freshdesk
3 12 (6.00%) Nintex
4 11 (5.50%) Oracle
5 10 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.50%) IFS
7 3 (1.50%) VMware
8 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Intapp
8 2 (1.00%) Juniper
8 2 (1.00%) McAfee
8 2 (1.00%) Roku
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) GoCardless
9 1 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile