Regression Testing Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Regression Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Regression Testing over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Regression Testing UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	355	322	384
Rank change year-on-year	-33	+62
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing	762	988	891
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.87%	1.00%	0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.97%	1.13%	0.91%
Number of salaries quoted	590	785	726
Median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£29,000	£28,500	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£67,500	£60,000	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£37,500	£37,500	£37,500

Regression Testing is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	78925	87582	97637
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	89.72%	88.95%	88.02%
Number of salaries quoted	63638	73140	79819
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£50,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£31,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£44,000
% change year-on-year	-	+2.27%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Regression Testing over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 30 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-31	737	£42,500	+6.25%	100
London	+20	274	£57,500	+15.00%	42
South East	-70	156	£37,500	-	21
North West	-7	72	£35,000	-24.73%	9
East of England	-6	66	£43,750	+16.66%	5
West Midlands	-11	52	£34,000	+2.25%	7
City of London	+20	51	£65,000	+52.94%	11
Surrey	+33	42	£45,000	+5.88%	4
South West	+6	41	£42,500	-5.55%	5
Hampshire	-5	35	£32,500	-	6
Yorkshire	-27	35	£32,500	-7.14%	5
Berkshire	+10	30	£41,250	-9.34%	4
Manchester	-22	30	£35,000	+7.69%	6
Cambridge	-2	29	£52,000	+35.94%	3
Cambridgeshire	-2	29	£52,000	+35.94%	3
Coventry	+15	28	£34,000	-2.85%	2
East Midlands	+6	28	£45,000	+34.83%	2
Reading	+40	25	£42,500	-5.55%	2
West Yorkshire	-12	24	£31,500	-10.00%	2
Leeds	+3	21	£31,500	-25.88%	1
Bristol	-1	21	£42,500	-2.85%	2
Buckinghamshire	-5	20	£36,250	+3.57%	2
Hertfordshire	-5	19	£36,500	+1.38%
North East	+29	16	£33,500	-1.47%	4
Nottinghamshire	+12	16	£48,750	+46.06%	1
Nottingham	+11	16	£48,750	+46.06%	1
West Sussex	-3	16	£47,000	+25.33%
Tyne and Wear	+32	14	£32,500	-4.41%	3
Scotland	-12	14	£38,250	+11.67%	3
Newcastle upon Tyne	+26	12	£32,000	-5.88%	2

Regression Testing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT jobs citing Regression Testing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Regression Testing.

1	995 (63.74%)	Test Automation
2	792 (50.74%)	Agile Software Development
3	676 (43.31%)	QA
4	532 (34.08%)	Selenium
5	475 (30.43%)	SQL
6	430 (27.55%)	Finance
7	423 (27.10%)	Test Scripting
8	385 (24.66%)	User Acceptance Testing
9	372 (23.83%)	Java
10	362 (23.19%)	Test Strategy
11	329 (21.08%)	Scrum
12	307 (19.67%)	C#
13	291 (18.64%)	Functional Testing
14	265 (16.98%)	Microsoft
14	265 (16.98%)	SDLC

15	253 (16.21%)	Software Testing
16	246 (15.76%)	Degree
17	245 (15.70%)	ISTQB
17	245 (15.70%)	SQL Server
18	230 (14.73%)	JIRA
19	225 (14.41%)	Performance Testing
20	222 (14.22%)	Manual Testing
21	219 (14.03%)	ISEB
22	212 (13.58%)	Software Engineering
23	209 (13.39%)	Windows
24	197 (12.62%)	.NET
25	191 (12.24%)	BDD
26	183 (11.72%)	Unit Testing
27	181 (11.60%)	Continuous Integration
28	174 (11.15%)	Oracle

Regression Testing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (3.46%)	Confluence
2	53 (3.40%)	Tomcat
3	30 (1.92%)	Apache Spark
4	27 (1.73%)	SharePoint
5	18 (1.15%)	Apache
5	18 (1.15%)	BizTalk Server
6	16 (1.02%)	IIS
7	14 (0.90%)	JBoss
8	11 (0.70%)	OpenStack
9	10 (0.64%)	WebSphere
10	9 (0.58%)	WebLogic
11	6 (0.38%)	CMS
11	6 (0.38%)	Jetty
11	6 (0.38%)	Mule
11	6 (0.38%)	Mule ESB
12	5 (0.32%)	ATG Dynamo
12	5 (0.32%)	iPlanet
12	5 (0.32%)	MQSeries
12	5 (0.32%)	SAS
13	4 (0.26%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	92 (5.89%)	Microsoft Excel
2	57 (3.65%)	Microsoft Office
3	45 (2.88%)	MS Visio
4	24 (1.54%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	12 (0.77%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.19%)	Photoshop
7	2 (0.13%)	Simulink
7	2 (0.13%)	SPSS
8	1 (0.064%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	31 (1.99%)	SAP FI
2	24 (1.54%)	SAP CO
2	24 (1.54%)	SAP FI/CO
3	21 (1.35%)	Dynamics CRM
4	18 (1.15%)	Actimize
5	10 (0.64%)	Oracle EBS
5	10 (0.64%)	SAP SD
6	7 (0.45%)	SAP BPC
7	6 (0.38%)	SAP PP
8	5 (0.32%)	SAP CRM
9	4 (0.26%)	Dynamics AX
9	4 (0.26%)	Infor M3
9	4 (0.26%)	SAP QM
9	4 (0.26%)	SAP WM
10	3 (0.19%)	Markit EDM
10	3 (0.19%)	SAP APO
11	2 (0.13%)	Oracle EBS R12
11	2 (0.13%)	SAP ERP
11	2 (0.13%)	SAP EWM
11	2 (0.13%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	57 (3.65%)	Amazon AWS
2	37 (2.37%)	SaaS
3	23 (1.47%)	Force.com
4	18 (1.15%)	Microsoft Azure
5	16 (1.02%)	GitHub
6	10 (0.64%)	BrowserStack
7	5 (0.32%)	Cloud Computing
7	5 (0.32%)	IaaS
7	5 (0.32%)	Sauce Labs
8	3 (0.19%)	Google Analytics
8	3 (0.19%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	3 (0.19%)	Oracle Service Cloud
8	3 (0.19%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
9	2 (0.13%)	Lucidchart
9	2 (0.13%)	PaaS
10	1 (0.064%)	Amazon EC2
10	1 (0.064%)	Amazon EMR
10	1 (0.064%)	Amazon S3
10	1 (0.064%)	Google Compute Engine
10	1 (0.064%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	25 (1.60%)	Internet
2	19 (1.22%)	VoIP
3	18 (1.15%)	HTTP
4	14 (0.90%)	TCP/IP
5	8 (0.51%)	Wireless
6	7 (0.45%)	DNS
6	7 (0.45%)	HTTPS
7	6 (0.38%)	SMTP
8	4 (0.26%)	Firewall
9	3 (0.19%)	Intrusion Detection
9	3 (0.19%)	Multicast
9	3 (0.19%)	SSH
9	3 (0.19%)	SSL
10	2 (0.13%)	ATM
10	2 (0.13%)	CTI
10	2 (0.13%)	Kerberos
10	2 (0.13%)	LDAP
10	2 (0.13%)	Profibus
10	2 (0.13%)	SAN
10	2 (0.13%)	TETRA

Database & Business Intelligence
1	245 (15.70%)	SQL Server
2	74 (4.74%)	Relational Database
3	73 (4.68%)	Big Data
4	59 (3.78%)	Data Warehouse
5	49 (3.14%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	47 (3.01%)	NoSQL
7	42 (2.69%)	Hadoop
8	38 (2.43%)	MySQL
9	34 (2.18%)	Power BI
10	30 (1.92%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	26 (1.67%)	OLAP
12	25 (1.60%)	Apache Hive
12	25 (1.60%)	OLAP Cube
12	25 (1.60%)	SSDT
13	21 (1.35%)	Oracle Database
14	15 (0.96%)	BusinessObjects
14	15 (0.96%)	Crystal Reports
14	15 (0.96%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
15	14 (0.90%)	MariaDB
16	13 (0.83%)	Data Mining

Development Applications
1	532 (34.08%)	Selenium
2	230 (14.73%)	JIRA
3	172 (11.02%)	WebDriver
4	170 (10.89%)	Cucumber
5	119 (7.62%)	Team Foundation Server
6	118 (7.56%)	Jenkins
7	110 (7.05%)	Visual Studio
8	107 (6.85%)	SoapUI
9	95 (6.09%)	Git (software)
10	71 (4.55%)	HP UFT
11	65 (4.16%)	JMeter
12	58 (3.72%)	JUnit
13	57 (3.65%)	Subversion
14	52 (3.33%)	Maven
15	51 (3.27%)	SpecFlow
16	46 (2.95%)	NUnit
17	42 (2.69%)	FitNesse
18	36 (2.31%)	TeamCity
19	28 (1.79%)	TestComplete
20	27 (1.73%)	Ranorex

General
1	430 (27.55%)	Finance
2	157 (10.06%)	Banking
3	90 (5.77%)	Retail
4	77 (4.93%)	Back Office
5	54 (3.46%)	Investment Banking
6	38 (2.43%)	Manufacturing
6	38 (2.43%)	Telecoms
7	33 (2.11%)	Retail Banking
8	29 (1.86%)	Automotive
9	20 (1.28%)	Legal
10	19 (1.22%)	Electronics
10	19 (1.22%)	Front Office
11	18 (1.15%)	Corporate Banking
12	16 (1.02%)	Aerospace
13	14 (0.90%)	Military
13	14 (0.90%)	Publishing
14	13 (0.83%)	Marketing
15	8 (0.51%)	Law
16	7 (0.45%)	Financial Institution
16	7 (0.45%)	Games

Job Titles
1	488 (31.26%)	Analyst
2	318 (20.37%)	Test Analyst
3	278 (17.81%)	Tester
4	224 (14.35%)	Test Engineer
5	186 (11.92%)	Developer
6	134 (8.58%)	QA Engineer
7	117 (7.50%)	QA Tester
8	115 (7.37%)	Automation Tester
9	114 (7.30%)	QA Analyst
10	100 (6.41%)	Test Leader
11	80 (5.12%)	Automation Test Analyst
12	75 (4.80%)	Test Manager
13	72 (4.61%)	Software Tester
14	70 (4.48%)	Software Test Engineer
15	65 (4.16%)	Business Analyst
15	65 (4.16%)	QA Test Analyst
16	64 (4.10%)	Selenium Tester
17	62 (3.97%)	Java Developer
18	59 (3.78%)	Consultant
18	59 (3.78%)	QA Test Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	197 (12.62%)	.NET
2	150 (9.61%)	XML
3	135 (8.65%)	Web Services
4	98 (6.28%)	SOAP
5	84 (5.38%)	HTML
5	84 (5.38%)	REST
6	56 (3.59%)	ASP.NET
7	53 (3.40%)	Gherkin
8	50 (3.20%)	Spring
9	49 (3.14%)	CSS
10	38 (2.43%)	JSON
10	38 (2.43%)	RESTful
11	35 (2.24%)	Hibernate
11	35 (2.24%)	HTML5
12	34 (2.18%)	XSD
13	32 (2.05%)	jQuery
14	30 (1.92%)	Node.js
15	29 (1.86%)	AngularJS
16	28 (1.79%)	.NET Framework
17	26 (1.67%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	139 (8.90%)	Analytical Skills
2	118 (7.56%)	Computer Science
3	71 (4.55%)	Mobile App
4	63 (4.04%)	Management Information System
5	57 (3.65%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	52 (3.33%)	Fixed Income
7	44 (2.82%)	Enterprise Software
8	34 (2.18%)	Client/Server
9	31 (1.99%)	Derivative
9	31 (1.99%)	Virtual Team
10	28 (1.79%)	User Experience
11	26 (1.67%)	Equities
11	26 (1.67%)	Fintech
12	24 (1.54%)	Algorithms
12	24 (1.54%)	iPad
13	16 (1.02%)	Embedded Systems
14	15 (0.96%)	Replication
15	14 (0.90%)	Field-Programmable Gate Array
16	13 (0.83%)	Data Structures
16	13 (0.83%)	Greenfield Project

Operating Systems
1	209 (13.39%)	Windows
2	135 (8.65%)	Linux
3	82 (5.25%)	Unix
4	52 (3.33%)	Android
5	49 (3.14%)	Apple iOS
6	38 (2.43%)	Windows Server
7	21 (1.35%)	Solaris
8	14 (0.90%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	14 (0.90%)	Windows Server 2012
9	8 (0.51%)	Mac OS
10	7 (0.45%)	Windows 7
10	7 (0.45%)	Windows Server 2008
11	3 (0.19%)	AIX
11	3 (0.19%)	Debian
11	3 (0.19%)	Mac OS X
12	2 (0.13%)	VxWorks
12	2 (0.13%)	Windows XP
13	1 (0.064%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	995 (63.74%)	Test Automation
2	792 (50.74%)	Agile Software Development
3	423 (27.10%)	Test Scripting
4	385 (24.66%)	User Acceptance Testing
5	362 (23.19%)	Test Strategy
6	329 (21.08%)	Scrum
7	291 (18.64%)	Functional Testing
8	265 (16.98%)	SDLC
9	253 (16.21%)	Software Testing
10	225 (14.41%)	Performance Testing
11	222 (14.22%)	Manual Testing
12	212 (13.58%)	Software Engineering
13	191 (12.24%)	BDD
14	183 (11.72%)	Unit Testing
15	181 (11.60%)	Continuous Integration
16	173 (11.08%)	TDD
17	164 (10.51%)	Integration Testing
18	162 (10.38%)	Scenario Testing
19	157 (10.06%)	System Testing
20	144 (9.22%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	475 (30.43%)	SQL
2	372 (23.83%)	Java
3	307 (19.67%)	C#
4	172 (11.02%)	JavaScript
5	120 (7.69%)	Python
6	87 (5.57%)	C++
7	69 (4.42%)	C
8	55 (3.52%)	PL/SQL
9	46 (2.95%)	T-SQL
10	40 (2.56%)	Ruby
11	39 (2.50%)	VB
12	30 (1.92%)	Perl
13	28 (1.79%)	PHP
14	26 (1.67%)	Scala
15	21 (1.35%)	VBScript
16	18 (1.15%)	Groovy
17	16 (1.02%)	Shell Script
18	9 (0.58%)	Embedded C
19	8 (0.51%)	VB.NET
19	8 (0.51%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	246 (15.76%)	Degree
2	245 (15.70%)	ISTQB
3	219 (14.03%)	ISEB
4	90 (5.77%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	57 (3.65%)	Computer Science Degree
6	34 (2.18%)	Security Cleared
7	25 (1.60%)	Master's Degree
8	19 (1.22%)	SC Cleared
9	14 (0.90%)	Numerate Degree
10	11 (0.70%)	ISEB Practitioner
11	7 (0.45%)	CCNP
11	7 (0.45%)	Cisco Certification
12	6 (0.38%)	CCNA
13	5 (0.32%)	DBS Check
13	5 (0.32%)	DV Cleared
13	5 (0.32%)	ITIL Certification
14	4 (0.26%)	MCITP
14	4 (0.26%)	Network+ Certification
14	4 (0.26%)	PRINCE2 Certification
14	4 (0.26%)	Six Sigma Black Belt

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	676 (43.31%)	QA
2	15 (0.96%)	PMO
2	15 (0.96%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
3	14 (0.90%)	ISO 20022
4	11 (0.70%)	JTAG
4	11 (0.70%)	SLA
5	8 (0.51%)	ISO 9001
6	7 (0.45%)	ISO 15022
7	5 (0.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	4 (0.26%)	HL7
8	4 (0.26%)	MiFID
8	4 (0.26%)	PCI DSS
9	3 (0.19%)	Data Quality
9	3 (0.19%)	EMIR
10	2 (0.13%)	GCP
10	2 (0.13%)	IEC 61508
10	2 (0.13%)	IEC 62304
11	1 (0.064%)	MISRA

System Software
1	28 (1.79%)	Docker
2	16 (1.02%)	Firmware
2	16 (1.02%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	8 (0.51%)	Active Directory
3	8 (0.51%)	Virtual Machines
4	6 (0.38%)	Hyper-V
5	1 (0.064%)	Virtual Servers
5	1 (0.064%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	69 (4.42%)	HP Quality Center
2	19 (1.22%)	Kubernetes
3	12 (0.77%)	Ansible
4	11 (0.70%)	Puppet
5	4 (0.26%)	Docker Swarm
5	4 (0.26%)	Mesos
5	4 (0.26%)	Prometheus
5	4 (0.26%)	WebSphere Cast Iron
6	2 (0.13%)	Opscode Chef
6	2 (0.13%)	SCOM
7	1 (0.064%)	CA Single Sign-On
7	1 (0.064%)	McAfee ePO
7	1 (0.064%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.064%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
7	1 (0.064%)	Terraform
7	1 (0.064%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	265 (16.98%)	Microsoft
2	174 (11.15%)	Oracle
3	75 (4.80%)	SAP
4	57 (3.65%)	HP
5	41 (2.63%)	Sybase
6	38 (2.43%)	Salesforce.com
7	37 (2.37%)	Atlassian
8	30 (1.92%)	Tableau
9	27 (1.73%)	Murex
10	20 (1.28%)	Red Hat
11	19 (1.22%)	VMware
12	18 (1.15%)	IBM
12	18 (1.15%)	TOWER Software
13	14 (0.90%)	Cognizant
14	13 (0.83%)	Apigee
15	10 (0.64%)	ATG
16	9 (0.58%)	Borland
16	9 (0.58%)	hybris
17	8 (0.51%)	Google
18	7 (0.45%)	CA Agile Central

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