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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 473 577
Rank change year-on-year -56 +104 -97
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 176 149 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 116 105 205
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%

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 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

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 31 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 31 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 -34 153 £53,000 +12.77% 96
UK excluding London -44 114 £47,500 +11.76% 81
Work from Home +1 62 £55,000 +17.02% 39
London -12 50 £57,500 -17.86% 29
South East -30 29 £47,500 - 29
South West -30 25 £47,500 +37.68% 8
North of England -58 21 £42,500 -9.57% 19
Midlands -29 19 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North West -16 16 £42,500 -9.57% 11
Scotland -20 12 - - 5
East Midlands -42 10 £55,000 +22.22% 1
West Midlands -15 9 £55,000 +35.80% 9
East of England -24 6 £48,750 +21.88% 6
Yorkshire -46 4 £26,000 -19.96% 3
Wales -25 2 £52,500 -23.36% 7
North East -22 1 £55,000 +59.42% 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 6 (3.41%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.70%) CMS
2 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.57%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (3.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.57%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.57%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.55%) Azure
2 40 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (10.80%) AWS
3 19 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.25%) SaaS
6 7 (3.98%) iPaaS
7 6 (3.41%) Boomi
7 6 (3.41%) Workato
8 5 (2.84%) GCP
8 5 (2.84%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.70%) Serverless
10 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.14%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.57%) GitHub
11 1 (0.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Power BI
2 14 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (18.18%) JIRA
2 30 (17.05%) Selenium
3 18 (10.23%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.68%) TestRail
5 7 (3.98%) Git
5 7 (3.98%) Postman
5 7 (3.98%) Subversion
5 7 (3.98%) Zephyr
6 5 (2.84%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.84%) SpecFlow
6 5 (2.84%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.70%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (1.70%) TestDirector
8 2 (1.14%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.14%) GitLab
8 2 (1.14%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.57%) Appium
9 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 77 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.43%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (24.43%) Finance
3 14 (7.95%) Billing
4 13 (7.39%) Law
5 12 (6.82%) Banking
6 10 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.55%) Electronics
7 8 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.98%) Back Office
9 6 (3.41%) Advertising
9 6 (3.41%) Legal
10 5 (2.84%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.27%) Retail
12 3 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.70%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (27.84%) Analyst
2 36 (20.45%) Lead
3 17 (9.66%) QA Leader
4 16 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 16 (9.09%) Tester
5 15 (8.52%) Test Analyst
6 14 (7.95%) Test Leader
7 13 (7.39%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.39%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (7.39%) Junior
7 13 (7.39%) Support Analyst
8 12 (6.82%) Senior
9 11 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (5.68%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.98%) QA Analyst
12 7 (3.98%) Senior Technical Analyst
12 7 (3.98%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.75%) Playwright
2 15 (8.52%) REST
3 14 (7.95%) XML
4 13 (7.39%) .NET
5 10 (5.68%) JSON
6 7 (3.98%) SOAP
7 6 (3.41%) CSS
7 6 (3.41%) HTML
7 6 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.41%) React
7 6 (3.41%) Visualforce
7 6 (3.41%) Web Services
8 5 (2.84%) RESTful
9 4 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.14%) Middleware
10 2 (1.14%) Node.js
10 2 (1.14%) WPF
11 1 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.07%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.41%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.84%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.84%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.27%) Derivative
7 4 (2.27%) Equities
7 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.82%) Linux
2 11 (6.25%) Windows
3 7 (3.98%) Android
3 7 (3.98%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.84%) Unix
5 3 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.70%) Test Automation
2 78 (44.32%) Agile
3 55 (31.25%) Software Testing
4 54 (30.68%) User Acceptance Testing
5 50 (28.41%) DevOps
5 50 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (27.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (25.00%) Manual Testing
8 38 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (19.89%) SDLC
10 33 (18.75%) CI/CD
11 32 (18.18%) Test Scripting
12 31 (17.61%) Validation
13 25 (14.20%) Waterfall
14 24 (13.64%) API Testing
14 24 (13.64%) Customer Service
14 24 (13.64%) Test Strategy
15 23 (13.07%) Acceptance Criteria
15 23 (13.07%) Functional Testing
15 23 (13.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.00%) SQL
2 26 (14.77%) Python
3 21 (11.93%) Java
4 17 (9.66%) C#
5 14 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.41%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.84%) Bash
8 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.27%) Ruby
10 2 (1.14%) Go
10 2 (1.14%) SOQL
10 2 (1.14%) SOSL
11 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (19.32%) Degree
2 22 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 14 (7.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 13 (7.39%) HND
5 12 (6.82%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.98%) ISEB
7 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.27%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.57%) ACCA
11 1 (0.57%) CIMA
11 1 (0.57%) MCSE
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.57%) PMP
11 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (39.77%) QA
2 26 (14.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.82%) SLA
4 8 (4.55%) GDPR
5 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.27%) IFRS
6 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.70%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.70%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.57%) GAAP
9 1 (0.57%) MiFID
9 1 (0.57%) PMO
9 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Firmware
3 4 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.14%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.84%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Nessus
4 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.14%) SCCM
4 2 (1.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) SAP
3 15 (8.52%) Oracle
4 12 (6.82%) Adobe
4 12 (6.82%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.82%) Nintex
5 9 (5.11%) IFS
5 9 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.98%) Informatica
7 6 (3.41%) Dell
7 6 (3.41%) Epicor
7 6 (3.41%) IBM
7 6 (3.41%) Infor
7 6 (3.41%) Jitterbit
7 6 (3.41%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.41%) SnapLogic
7 6 (3.41%) Software AG
7 6 (3.41%) Talend
7 6 (3.41%) TIBCO
7 6 (3.41%) Workday