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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 510 533
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -92
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 134 196 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.40% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 94 107 157
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,538 £35,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £62,606
90th Percentile £72,300 £85,050 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -13.46%

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 49,261 48,421 52,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.81% 90.77% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,011 23,517 40,505
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +23 125 £54,250 +8.50% 231
UK excluding London -17 84 £47,500 +18.75% 233
Work from Home +63 57 £55,000 +7.32% 57
London +48 43 £58,500 -16.43% 26
South East +25 26 £57,500 +21.05% 64
South West +4 19 £37,500 +8.70% 32
North of England +1 16 £36,500 -2.67% 44
Midlands +5 14 £55,000 +22.22% 36
Yorkshire -7 9 £30,500 -6.11% 21
West Midlands +22 8 £50,125 +23.77% 11
Scotland -1 7 - - 9
North West +3 6 £42,500 -5.56% 18
East Midlands -13 6 £55,000 +8.91% 25
East of England +11 1 £68,500 +76.77% 38
Wales +3 1 £50,000 -47.37% 11
North East +3 1 £55,000 - 5

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 (5.22%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.48%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.48%) Shopify
3 3 (2.24%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.75%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.75%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.75%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.75%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.75%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.34%) Azure
2 37 (27.61%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.45%) AWS
5 10 (7.46%) SaaS
6 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.22%) Boomi
7 7 (5.22%) iPaaS
7 7 (5.22%) Power Automate
7 7 (5.22%) Workato
8 5 (3.73%) GitHub
9 4 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.24%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (2.24%) Datadog
11 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.49%) GCP
11 2 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.75%) DHCP
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.22%) Power BI
3 3 (2.24%) Mixpanel
4 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (33.58%) JIRA
2 22 (16.42%) Selenium
3 15 (11.19%) Cypress.io
4 10 (7.46%) Postman
4 10 (7.46%) TestRail
5 9 (6.72%) eCATT
6 8 (5.97%) Jenkins
7 7 (5.22%) Git
7 7 (5.22%) Subversion
8 6 (4.48%) Charles Proxy
8 6 (4.48%) Zephyr
9 5 (3.73%) Fiddler
10 4 (2.99%) TestNG
11 3 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (2.24%) LoadRunner
11 3 (2.24%) Maven
11 3 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (2.24%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.49%) Katalon Studio
General
1 54 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.61%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (27.61%) Finance
3 22 (16.42%) Law
4 14 (10.45%) Marketing
5 12 (8.96%) Legal
5 12 (8.96%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.72%) Electronics
6 9 (6.72%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.72%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.22%) Back Office
7 7 (5.22%) Banking
7 7 (5.22%) Billing
8 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.99%) Retail
10 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (35.82%) Analyst
2 27 (20.15%) Test Analyst
3 19 (14.18%) Lead
4 17 (12.69%) Senior
5 16 (11.94%) Tester
6 10 (7.46%) QA Leader
7 9 (6.72%) Automation Test Analyst
7 9 (6.72%) QA Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.97%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Test Manager
9 7 (5.22%) Consultant
9 7 (5.22%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) QA Test Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.48%) Manual Tester
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.48%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) Playwright
2 11 (8.21%) REST
3 8 (5.97%) .NET
4 7 (5.22%) SOAP
5 6 (4.48%) React
5 6 (4.48%) RESTful
5 6 (4.48%) Web Services
5 6 (4.48%) XML
6 5 (3.73%) JSON
7 4 (2.99%) CSS
7 4 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (2.99%) HTML
8 3 (2.24%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (1.49%) Node.js
9 2 (1.49%) WPF
10 1 (0.75%) Google JAX
10 1 (0.75%) JAX
10 1 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.73%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (3.73%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.99%) Derivative
6 4 (2.99%) Equities
6 4 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.24%) Over-the-Top Content
7 3 (2.24%) W3C
8 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) PKI
9 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.75%) SystemC
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Linux
2 8 (5.97%) Windows
3 6 (4.48%) Android
3 6 (4.48%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.73%) Unix
5 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (52.24%) Test Automation
2 63 (47.01%) Agile
3 43 (32.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (31.34%) Manual Testing
5 41 (30.60%) Software Testing
6 36 (26.87%) DevOps
6 36 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (23.13%) User Acceptance Testing
8 30 (22.39%) Test Management
9 28 (20.90%) Test Scripting
10 24 (17.91%) CI/CD
11 23 (17.16%) API Testing
11 23 (17.16%) End-to-End Testing
11 23 (17.16%) Scenario Testing
11 23 (17.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (17.16%) Test Strategy
12 22 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (15.67%) ERP
13 21 (15.67%) Integration Testing
13 21 (15.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.37%) SQL
2 22 (16.42%) Python
3 17 (12.69%) Java
4 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.21%) C#
6 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.99%) Bash
8 4 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.49%) SOQL
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (20.15%) ISTQB
2 21 (15.67%) Degree
3 18 (13.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (5.22%) HND
4 7 (5.22%) ISEB
4 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.49%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.75%) MCSA
9 1 (0.75%) MCSE
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) PhD
9 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (40.30%) QA
2 13 (9.70%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.97%) GDPR
4 7 (5.22%) SLA
5 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.75%) IFRS
7 1 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.72%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (6.72%) HP ALM
1 9 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) Ansible
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
3 2 (1.49%) Nessus
3 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.93%) SAP
3 13 (9.70%) Oracle
4 10 (7.46%) Adobe
5 9 (6.72%) HP
6 7 (5.22%) Dell
6 7 (5.22%) Epicor
6 7 (5.22%) Freshdesk
6 7 (5.22%) IBM
6 7 (5.22%) IFS
6 7 (5.22%) Infor
6 7 (5.22%) Informatica
6 7 (5.22%) Jitterbit
6 7 (5.22%) MuleSoft
6 7 (5.22%) Nintex
6 7 (5.22%) SnapLogic
6 7 (5.22%) Software AG
6 7 (5.22%) Talend
6 7 (5.22%) TIBCO
6 7 (5.22%) Workday