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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 489 595
Rank change year-on-year -53 +106 -100
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 200 189 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.46% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 123 113 227
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,998 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,050 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -2.44%

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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -62 173 £50,000 +5.26% 68
UK excluding London -70 132 £47,500 +1.06% 51
Work from Home -27 56 £55,000 +15.79% 37
London -43 53 £61,250 +2.08% 26
South East -26 39 £46,250 -9.76% 14
North of England -40 29 £38,136 -18.86% 9
South West -36 24 £47,500 +36.69% 6
North West +8 20 £37,500 -20.21% 5
Midlands -26 18 £55,000 +35.80% 12
Scotland +14 12 - - 5
West Midlands -26 10 £55,125 +36.11% 4
East of England 0 8 £50,000 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -23 8 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Yorkshire -40 6 £26,000 -38.82% 4
Wales -38 3 £72,500 +12.84% 1
North East -47 3 £46,886 -14.75% 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 2 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) CANalyzer
4 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 64 (32.00%) Azure
2 49 (24.50%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (13.00%) AWS
4 17 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.50%) SaaS
7 10 (5.00%) Serverless
8 9 (4.50%) GCP
9 5 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.50%) GitHub
9 5 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.50%) Power BI
2 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (17.50%) Selenium
2 33 (16.50%) JIRA
3 21 (10.50%) Cypress.io
3 21 (10.50%) Git
4 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.00%) Zephyr
6 8 (4.00%) GitLab
6 8 (4.00%) Postman
6 8 (4.00%) WebDriver
7 7 (3.50%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.50%) Subversion
7 7 (3.50%) TestRail
8 6 (3.00%) SpecFlow
9 5 (2.50%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.00%) JUnit
11 3 (1.50%) Appium
11 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.50%) JMeter
11 3 (1.50%) Maven
11 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.50%) Finance
3 45 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.50%) Billing
5 11 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.50%) Banking
7 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.00%) Marketing
7 8 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.00%) Advertising
9 6 (3.00%) Law
9 6 (3.00%) Retail
10 5 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (2.50%) Electronics
10 5 (2.50%) Legal
11 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (25.50%) Lead
2 42 (21.00%) Analyst
3 24 (12.00%) QA Leader
4 23 (11.50%) Tester
5 21 (10.50%) Senior
6 18 (9.00%) QA Engineer
7 17 (8.50%) Test Leader
8 15 (7.50%) Test Engineer
9 14 (7.00%) Junior
10 12 (6.00%) Support Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Applications Support
11 11 (5.50%) Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Test Analyst
13 9 (4.50%) Developer
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 9 (4.50%) React
5 8 (4.00%) XML
6 7 (3.50%) JSON
7 6 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.00%) RESTful
7 6 (3.00%) Visualforce
8 4 (2.00%) CSS
8 4 (2.00%) HTML
9 3 (1.50%) J2EE
9 3 (1.50%) Struts
9 3 (1.50%) Web Services
9 3 (1.50%) WireMock
10 2 (1.00%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.00%) JWT
10 2 (1.00%) Middleware
10 2 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.50%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.50%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.50%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.50%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.00%) Android
1 8 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.50%) Linux
3 5 (2.50%) Unix
3 5 (2.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (52.50%) Test Automation
2 89 (44.50%) Agile
3 64 (32.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 62 (31.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (30.00%) DevOps
5 60 (30.00%) Software Testing
6 55 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 42 (21.00%) Manual Testing
8 42 (21.00%) SDLC
8 42 (21.00%) Validation
9 39 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (18.00%) Test Strategy
11 34 (17.00%) Mentoring
12 31 (15.50%) Test Scripting
13 29 (14.50%) Acceptance Criteria
14 28 (14.00%) Process Improvement
15 26 (13.00%) Scrum
15 26 (13.00%) Waterfall
16 25 (12.50%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.50%) SQL
2 27 (13.50%) Java
3 25 (12.50%) Python
4 20 (10.00%) C#
5 15 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.50%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.50%) Groovy
8 5 (2.50%) Perl
9 4 (2.00%) Ruby
10 3 (1.50%) C++
10 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.00%) Bash
11 2 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) SOQL
11 2 (1.00%) SOSL
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 47 (23.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 19 (9.50%) HND
4 10 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) HNC
6 6 (3.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.50%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.00%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.00%) CSQA
9 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.00%) ISEB
10 1 (0.50%) ACCA
10 1 (0.50%) CCSP
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.50%) CISSP
10 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (44.00%) QA
2 28 (14.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (6.50%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.50%) SLA
5 4 (2.00%) GDPR
6 3 (1.50%) IFRS
6 3 (1.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.00%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.50%) GAAP
8 1 (0.50%) MiFID
8 1 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Firmware
3 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.00%) 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
5 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.00%) SAP
3 11 (5.50%) Adobe
3 11 (5.50%) Freshdesk
3 11 (5.50%) Nintex
4 10 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.00%) IFS
7 3 (1.50%) VMware
8 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) Databricks
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Intapp
8 2 (1.00%) Juniper
8 2 (1.00%) McAfee
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Callidus
9 1 (0.50%) Conga