Regression Testing Job Trends

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 534 492
Rank change year-on-year -5 -42 -15
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 134 267 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 80 157 219
10th Percentile £32,375 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,013 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,938 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £47,500 £47,250
% change year-on-year +13.16% +0.53% -5.50%

All Process and 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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 18 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 16 September 2025. 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 +21 120 £55,000 -0.39% 67
UK excluding London -22 78 £53,750 +13.16% 52
Work from Home +30 69 £55,000 +4.76% 39
London +46 45 £60,000 -4.93% 23
South East +27 33 £67,500 +28.57% 25
North of England +32 20 £43,250 +1.76% 10
South West +53 11 £40,000 +7.60% 2
Yorkshire +13 8 £30,500 -28.24% 4
North West -12 8 £55,000 +26.44% 6
Midlands +49 6 £35,000 -22.22% 8
Scotland +25 6 £55,000 +37.50% 1
North East +18 4 £55,000 +42.86%
West Midlands +39 3 £35,000 -22.22% 5
East Midlands +21 3 £37,500 - 3
Wales +17 1 £60,000 -36.84% 1
Northern Ireland +15 1 - -
East of England -13 1 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) nginx
2 1 (0.75%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (2.24%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Magento
3 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.75%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.75%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.12%) Azure
2 19 (14.18%) AWS
2 19 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.21%) GitHub
4 10 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.48%) OCI
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.24%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.24%) Datadog
7 3 (2.24%) SaaS
7 3 (2.24%) Serverless
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.49%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.99%) Power BI
3 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.24%) Mixpanel
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.49%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) GIS
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Parquet
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
6 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (22.39%) JIRA
2 24 (17.91%) Selenium
3 17 (12.69%) Git
4 14 (10.45%) Postman
5 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.46%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.48%) TestRail
7 6 (4.48%) Zephyr
8 5 (3.73%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (2.99%) JMeter
9 4 (2.99%) LoadRunner
9 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.99%) TestNG
10 3 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (2.24%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.24%) Fiddler
10 3 (2.24%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (2.24%) Locust
10 3 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (29.10%) Finance
1 39 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.19%) Law
4 14 (10.45%) Aerospace
5 13 (9.70%) Banking
5 13 (9.70%) Legal
6 8 (5.97%) Military
7 7 (5.22%) Aviation
8 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.24%) Electronics
9 3 (2.24%) Marketing
9 3 (2.24%) Private Banking
9 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 3 (2.24%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.16%) Analyst
2 17 (12.69%) Lead
3 16 (11.94%) Senior
3 16 (11.94%) Test Analyst
4 13 (9.70%) Developer
5 12 (8.96%) Consultant
6 10 (7.46%) QA Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Test Manager
7 9 (6.72%) Release Manager
7 9 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Automation Test Lead
8 8 (5.97%) QA Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Test Leader
8 8 (5.97%) Tester
9 7 (5.22%) QA Leader
9 7 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (4.48%) Software Tester
10 6 (4.48%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.19%) .NET
2 10 (7.46%) Playwright
3 9 (6.72%) REST
4 7 (5.22%) Qt
4 7 (5.22%) XML
5 3 (2.24%) React
5 3 (2.24%) SOAP
6 2 (1.49%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.49%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.49%) Blazor
6 2 (1.49%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.49%) gRPC
6 2 (1.49%) Kafka
6 2 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.49%) Node.js
6 2 (1.49%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.49%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (1.49%) RESTful
6 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (6.72%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.72%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.72%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.22%) e-Learning
4 7 (5.22%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (5.22%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.24%) W3C
7 2 (1.49%) Derivative
7 2 (1.49%) Equities
7 2 (1.49%) Replication
7 2 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.75%) FMCG
8 1 (0.75%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.75%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Android
1 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Unix
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (50.75%) Test Automation
2 63 (47.01%) Agile
3 51 (38.06%) Software Testing
4 38 (28.36%) CI/CD
4 38 (28.36%) Test Strategy
5 36 (26.87%) DevOps
6 33 (24.63%) User Acceptance Testing
7 31 (23.13%) Manual Testing
8 29 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (19.40%) SDLC
11 22 (16.42%) Performance Testing
12 21 (15.67%) Integration Testing
12 21 (15.67%) Scenario Testing
12 21 (15.67%) Test Scripting
13 19 (14.18%) Test Management
13 19 (14.18%) Validation
14 18 (13.43%) API Testing
15 15 (11.19%) Scrum
16 14 (10.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (30.60%) SQL
2 25 (18.66%) Python
3 15 (11.19%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.45%) C#
4 14 (10.45%) Java
5 11 (8.21%) C
6 10 (7.46%) C++
7 7 (5.22%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.24%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.49%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) SOQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) ISTQB
2 15 (11.19%) Degree
3 10 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (5.22%) ISEB
6 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) ACCA
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CIMA
8 1 (0.75%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (45.52%) QA
2 11 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.21%) Oracle
3 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.99%) Adobe
4 4 (2.99%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) iManage
5 3 (2.24%) Tealium
5 3 (2.24%) Workday
6 2 (1.49%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.49%) Google
6 2 (1.49%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.75%) Dell
7 1 (0.75%) Epicor
7 1 (0.75%) Infor
7 1 (0.75%) Informatica
7 1 (0.75%) Pega
7 1 (0.75%) Software AG
7 1 (0.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.75%) TIBCO