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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 499 569
Rank change year-on-year 0 +70 -94
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 179 162 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 115 103 209
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,625 £55,625 £62,606
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.45%

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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -24 156 £55,000 +15.79% 96
UK excluding London -17 119 £47,500 +11.76% 60
Work from Home +27 64 £55,000 +17.02% 43
London +17 46 £57,500 -28.13% 22
South East -9 34 £52,500 +10.53% 20
South West -5 28 £47,500 +37.68% 4
North of England -39 20 £42,500 -9.57% 16
Midlands -23 18 £55,000 +29.41% 11
North West -13 15 £42,500 -9.57% 12
Scotland -8 12 - -
East Midlands -33 10 £55,000 +15.18% 4
West Midlands -13 8 £55,125 +36.11% 7
East of England -1 5 £66,750 +66.88% 9
Yorkshire -40 4 £26,000 -16.45% 2
Wales -9 2 £52,500 -23.36% 2
North East -19 1 £55,000 +61.76% 2

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 7 (3.91%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.68%) CMS
2 3 (1.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.70%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.56%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (7.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.35%) Shopify
3 2 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.56%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.56%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.49%) Azure
2 49 (27.37%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.17%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.50%) Power Platform
5 16 (8.94%) AWS
6 11 (6.15%) SaaS
7 7 (3.91%) Boomi
7 7 (3.91%) iPaaS
7 7 (3.91%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.91%) Workato
8 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.23%) GCP
9 4 (2.23%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.12%) OCI
10 2 (1.12%) Serverless
10 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.56%) Sentry
11 1 (0.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.38%) Power BI
3 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (21.23%) JIRA
2 28 (15.64%) Selenium
3 17 (9.50%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.03%) eCATT
4 9 (5.03%) TestRail
5 7 (3.91%) Subversion
6 6 (3.35%) Git
6 6 (3.35%) Postman
7 5 (2.79%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.79%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.79%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.23%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.68%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.68%) TestDirector
10 2 (1.12%) Fiddler
10 2 (1.12%) GitLab
10 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.56%) Appium
11 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 71 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.37%) Finance
3 40 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.94%) Law
5 14 (7.82%) Billing
6 13 (7.26%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.70%) Banking
7 12 (6.70%) Marketing
8 11 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (3.91%) Advertising
12 7 (3.91%) Back Office
12 7 (3.91%) Electronics
12 7 (3.91%) Legal
13 5 (2.79%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
14 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (32.40%) Analyst
2 33 (18.44%) Lead
3 23 (12.85%) Test Analyst
4 17 (9.50%) Tester
5 16 (8.94%) QA Leader
6 14 (7.82%) Test Leader
7 13 (7.26%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.26%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (7.26%) Junior
7 13 (7.26%) QA Engineer
7 13 (7.26%) Senior
7 13 (7.26%) Support Analyst
8 11 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (5.03%) Automation Test Analyst
11 8 (4.47%) QA Analyst
11 8 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.47%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.76%) Playwright
2 16 (8.94%) REST
3 14 (7.82%) XML
4 12 (6.70%) .NET
5 10 (5.59%) JSON
6 7 (3.91%) SOAP
7 6 (3.35%) CSS
7 6 (3.35%) HTML
7 6 (3.35%) React
7 6 (3.35%) Web Services
8 5 (2.79%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (2.79%) RESTful
8 5 (2.79%) Visualforce
9 4 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.12%) Middleware
10 2 (1.12%) Node.js
10 2 (1.12%) WPF
11 1 (0.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.73%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.26%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.35%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.79%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.23%) Derivative
7 4 (2.23%) Equities
7 4 (2.23%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.56%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.56%) IoT
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.70%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Windows
3 6 (3.35%) Android
3 6 (3.35%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.79%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (51.40%) Test Automation
2 75 (41.90%) Agile
3 54 (30.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (29.05%) Manual Testing
5 51 (28.49%) User Acceptance Testing
6 50 (27.93%) DevOps
6 50 (27.93%) Software Testing
7 47 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (20.67%) Test Scripting
9 36 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (16.76%) CI/CD
11 29 (16.20%) ERP
11 29 (16.20%) SDLC
12 28 (15.64%) Validation
13 27 (15.08%) Test Management
14 26 (14.53%) API Testing
15 25 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (13.41%) Customer Service
17 23 (12.85%) Acceptance Criteria
18 22 (12.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.46%) SQL
2 23 (12.85%) Python
3 20 (11.17%) Java
4 16 (8.94%) C#
5 13 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.79%) Apex Code
7 5 (2.79%) Bash
7 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.79%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.68%) Ruby
9 2 (1.12%) Go
9 2 (1.12%) SOQL
9 2 (1.12%) SOSL
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) ISTQB
3 14 (7.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (6.70%) HND
4 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) ISEB
6 4 (2.23%) BC Cleared
6 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) ACCA
9 1 (0.56%) CIMA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (37.43%) QA
2 25 (13.97%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.70%) SLA
4 9 (5.03%) GDPR
5 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.23%) IFRS
5 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.68%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.68%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GAAP
7 1 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Firmware
2 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.03%) HP ALM
3 5 (2.79%) Terraform
4 3 (1.68%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 2 (1.12%) Nessus
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (13.41%) Microsoft
1 24 (13.41%) SAP
2 17 (9.50%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) Adobe
3 12 (6.70%) Freshdesk
3 12 (6.70%) Nintex
4 10 (5.59%) IFS
5 9 (5.03%) HP
6 7 (3.91%) Dell
6 7 (3.91%) Epicor
6 7 (3.91%) IBM
6 7 (3.91%) Infor
6 7 (3.91%) Informatica
6 7 (3.91%) Jitterbit
6 7 (3.91%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.91%) SnapLogic
6 7 (3.91%) Software AG
6 7 (3.91%) Talend
6 7 (3.91%) TIBCO