Regression Testing Jobs

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 561 460
Rank change year-on-year +9 -101 +34
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 182 253 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.37% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 98 191 356
10th Percentile £31,675 £32,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% +10.09%
75th Percentile £59,070 £63,803 £72,647
90th Percentile £84,125 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +20.59%

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 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 17 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 19 February 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 +34 161 £50,250 +0.50% 91
UK excluding London +52 134 £42,500 -5.56% 56
Work from Home +65 64 £47,500 -5.00% 80
London -3 45 £67,500 +22.73% 44
South East +46 31 £47,500 +5.56% 15
North of England +47 29 £47,000 +10.59% 11
Midlands +16 27 £42,500 -15.00% 16
North West +19 21 £52,500 +5.00% 8
South West +62 18 £34,500 -31.00% 4
West Midlands +5 17 £40,500 -19.00% 11
Scotland +18 12 £37,500 -2.60% 1
East of England -5 11 £38,750 -3.13% 4
East Midlands +32 10 £50,500 +34.67% 5
Yorkshire +34 5 £31,118 -11.09% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
North East - 3 - - 1
Wales +34 2 - - 4

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 19 (10.44%) Confluence
2 4 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.20%) CICS
3 3 (1.65%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Simulink
2 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.84%) Azure
2 22 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (10.99%) AWS
4 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.49%) SaaS
6 6 (3.30%) GCP
7 4 (2.20%) GitHub
7 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.65%) BrowserStack
8 3 (1.65%) OCI
8 3 (1.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) HTTP
2 5 (2.75%) DNS
3 4 (2.20%) Firewall
3 4 (2.20%) IPv6
3 4 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.65%) 2G
4 3 (1.65%) 3G
4 3 (1.65%) 4G
4 3 (1.65%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.04%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.49%) Power BI
3 9 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.85%) MySQL
5 6 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.20%) Big Data
7 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.10%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.55%) KDB
10 1 (0.55%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (22.53%) Selenium
2 35 (19.23%) JIRA
3 34 (18.68%) Git
4 16 (8.79%) Postman
4 16 (8.79%) SpecFlow
5 15 (8.24%) Jenkins
6 13 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 11 (6.04%) Cypress.io
8 8 (4.40%) Appium
9 7 (3.85%) Zephyr
10 6 (3.30%) GitLab
10 6 (3.30%) JMeter
10 6 (3.30%) TestNG
11 5 (2.75%) Maven
11 5 (2.75%) TestComplete
12 4 (2.20%) JUnit
12 4 (2.20%) Rational Functional Tester
12 4 (2.20%) TestRail
13 3 (1.65%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.65%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 58 (31.87%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.74%) Finance
4 10 (5.49%) Banking
5 8 (4.40%) Front Office
6 6 (3.30%) Games
6 6 (3.30%) Law
6 6 (3.30%) Retail
7 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.65%) Billing
8 3 (1.65%) Marketing
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Automotive
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Publishing
10 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (19.78%) Analyst
2 32 (17.58%) Senior
3 30 (16.48%) Test Engineer
4 28 (15.38%) Developer
5 23 (12.64%) QA Engineer
6 20 (10.99%) Software Test Engineer
7 17 (9.34%) Lead
7 17 (9.34%) Test Analyst
8 15 (8.24%) Tester
9 13 (7.14%) Test Leader
10 11 (6.04%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.49%) QA Analyst
12 9 (4.95%) Software QA Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) Software Tester
13 8 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (3.85%) Support Analyst
15 6 (3.30%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.30%) QA Automation Engineer
15 6 (3.30%) Senior Software Test Engineer
16 5 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.99%) REST
2 12 (6.59%) JSON
3 10 (5.49%) .NET
3 10 (5.49%) AngularJS
3 10 (5.49%) CSS
3 10 (5.49%) HTML
3 10 (5.49%) XML
4 9 (4.95%) Kafka
5 8 (4.40%) Web Services
6 7 (3.85%) Django
6 7 (3.85%) Flask
7 6 (3.30%) Gherkin
7 6 (3.30%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.30%) MHP
7 6 (3.30%) Swagger
8 5 (2.75%) jQuery
8 5 (2.75%) LAMP
8 5 (2.75%) React
8 5 (2.75%) SOAP
8 5 (2.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.95%) Fixed Income
5 8 (4.40%) Derivative
5 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.30%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.20%) CMDB
8 4 (2.20%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.20%) VSAM
9 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.10%) FMCG
10 2 (1.10%) IoT
10 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.19%) Linux
2 20 (10.99%) Windows
3 9 (4.95%) Apple iOS
4 8 (4.40%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.40%) Test Automation
2 79 (43.41%) Software Testing
3 64 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (31.87%) Agile
5 45 (24.73%) SDLC
6 44 (24.18%) DevOps
7 39 (21.43%) Manual Testing
8 37 (20.33%) Test Strategy
8 37 (20.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 34 (18.68%) Test Scripting
10 31 (17.03%) Software Engineering
11 28 (15.38%) Scrum
12 26 (14.29%) CI/CD
12 26 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (12.09%) Performance Testing
14 21 (11.54%) Integration Testing
15 20 (10.99%) Analytics
15 20 (10.99%) System Testing
16 19 (10.44%) Exploratory Testing
17 18 (9.89%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.02%) SQL
2 50 (27.47%) Python
3 28 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 25 (13.74%) C#
5 21 (11.54%) Java
6 9 (4.95%) C++
6 9 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.85%) C
8 5 (2.75%) PHP
9 4 (2.20%) COBOL
9 4 (2.20%) Go
9 4 (2.20%) JCL
10 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.55%) R
12 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (16.48%) Degree
2 29 (15.93%) ISTQB
3 10 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.65%) ISEB
8 2 (1.10%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (34.07%) QA
2 10 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.30%) GDPR
5 4 (2.20%) ISO 8583
5 4 (2.20%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.65%) SLA
7 1 (0.55%) Basel III
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 17 (9.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.30%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.65%) Terraform
4 2 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.04%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.49%) SAP
4 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.30%) Siemens
6 5 (2.75%) Databricks
7 4 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.20%) HP
7 4 (2.20%) IBM
7 4 (2.20%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) Twitter
9 1 (0.55%) Aderant
9 1 (0.55%) Adobe
9 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.55%) Sybase