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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 551 526
Rank change year-on-year -11 -25 -33
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 252 130 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 153 79 153
10th Percentile £31,550 £32,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,775 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £63,112
90th Percentile £83,250 £75,000 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +2.63%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -22 227 £52,500 -4.55% 370
UK excluding London -39 171 £50,000 -9.09% 225
Work from Home -33 75 £48,750 -10.14% 133
London -31 63 £70,000 +16.67% 175
South East -37 45 £52,500 -22.22% 73
North of England -46 39 £50,000 -9.09% 39
South West -57 31 £42,500 +6.25% 30
Midlands -19 30 £52,500 +50.00% 29
West Midlands -24 24 £50,625 +44.64% 17
East of England -7 16 £37,500 -42.75% 27
North West -20 16 £52,500 -4.55% 15
North East -61 12 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire -31 11 £52,500 +72.13% 15
Scotland +11 8 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East Midlands -29 6 £70,000 +86.67% 11
Wales -67 3 £72,500 +20.83% 8

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 8 (3.17%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.57%) Simulink
3 3 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.59%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.56%) Azure
2 47 (18.65%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (12.30%) AWS
4 19 (7.54%) GCP
5 16 (6.35%) SaaS
6 15 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.76%) Serverless
8 8 (3.17%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.17%) GitHub
8 8 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.19%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.57%) Wireshark
2 8 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.38%) Power BI
1 6 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.19%) Metadata
4 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.19%) Power Query
5 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) GIS
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (17.46%) JIRA
1 44 (17.46%) Selenium
2 33 (13.10%) Cypress.io
3 32 (12.70%) Git
4 22 (8.73%) GitLab
5 21 (8.33%) Eclipse
6 18 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 18 (7.14%) Postman
6 18 (7.14%) REST Assured
7 14 (5.56%) JMeter
8 10 (3.97%) Zephyr
9 9 (3.57%) Subversion
10 7 (2.78%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.78%) JUnit
10 7 (2.78%) TestRail
11 5 (1.98%) Appium
11 5 (1.98%) Gatling
12 4 (1.59%) Ranorex
13 3 (1.19%) Eclipse RCP
13 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 89 (35.32%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (26.19%) Finance
4 26 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.14%) Retail
7 17 (6.75%) Electronics
8 15 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.57%) Law
9 9 (3.57%) Marketing
10 7 (2.78%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.78%) Legal
10 7 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.98%) Billing
13 4 (1.59%) Banking
13 4 (1.59%) Publishing
14 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (20.63%) Analyst
2 45 (17.86%) QA Engineer
3 41 (16.27%) Senior
4 40 (15.87%) Lead
5 38 (15.08%) Test Engineer
6 27 (10.71%) Tester
7 18 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 14 (5.56%) Developer
9 12 (4.76%) Junior
9 12 (4.76%) QA Leader
9 12 (4.76%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.37%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.37%) Senior QA Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Test Leader
12 8 (3.17%) Automation Tester
12 8 (3.17%) Lead Test Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) QA Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.27%) Playwright
2 28 (11.11%) REST
3 16 (6.35%) RESTful
4 15 (5.95%) React
5 13 (5.16%) CSS
5 13 (5.16%) HTML
6 10 (3.97%) JSON
7 9 (3.57%) Jakarta EE
7 9 (3.57%) Node.js
7 9 (3.57%) Struts
7 9 (3.57%) Web Services
8 8 (3.17%) .NET
8 8 (3.17%) XML
9 7 (2.78%) Terraform
10 5 (1.98%) OAuth
10 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.98%) Swagger
11 4 (1.59%) React Native
12 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.19%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.70%) Product Ownership
2 25 (9.92%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.57%) Client/Server
4 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.17%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.78%) SCADA
7 6 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.19%) Life Science
9 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.79%) CMDB
10 2 (0.79%) FMCG
10 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.94%) Linux
2 18 (7.14%) Android
3 16 (6.35%) Apple iOS
4 15 (5.95%) Windows
5 9 (3.57%) Unix
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 130 (51.59%) Agile
3 109 (43.25%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (42.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (38.49%) Validation
6 88 (34.92%) Software Testing
7 80 (31.75%) CI/CD
8 61 (24.21%) DevOps
9 59 (23.41%) SDLC
10 58 (23.02%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (19.05%) Defect Management
11 48 (19.05%) Manual Testing
11 48 (19.05%) Test Strategy
12 42 (16.67%) Code Quality
13 39 (15.48%) Scrum
14 37 (14.68%) Test Scripting
15 36 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
16 34 (13.49%) Exploratory Testing
17 32 (12.70%) Acceptance Criteria
17 32 (12.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.83%) SQL
2 41 (16.27%) Java
2 41 (16.27%) Python
3 34 (13.49%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.16%) C#
6 9 (3.57%) C
6 9 (3.57%) C++
6 9 (3.57%) Embedded C
6 9 (3.57%) MATLAB
6 9 (3.57%) Perl
7 5 (1.98%) Bash
7 5 (1.98%) Groovy
8 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (20.24%) Degree
2 37 (14.68%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.90%) ISTQB
4 22 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.17%) HNC
7 8 (3.17%) HND
8 6 (2.38%) AAT
9 4 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.59%) OCA
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.19%) ISEB
11 2 (0.79%) ACCA
11 2 (0.79%) CIMA
11 2 (0.79%) CSQA
12 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (51.59%) QA
2 24 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.56%) GDPR
4 12 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.38%) WCAG
6 5 (1.98%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.79%) GxP
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (6.75%) Docker
2 9 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.57%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Grafana
3 5 (1.98%) Ansible
4 3 (1.19%) Kibana
5 2 (0.79%) logstash
5 2 (0.79%) Packer
5 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.16%) Oracle
3 10 (3.97%) SAP
4 9 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.17%) Workday
6 6 (2.38%) IFS
6 6 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.98%) Google
7 5 (1.98%) Intel
8 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.79%) Databricks
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
9 2 (0.79%) Intapp
10 1 (0.40%) Aderant
10 1 (0.40%) Callidus
10 1 (0.40%) Conga
10 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.40%) Perfecto Mobile