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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 543 493
Rank change year-on-year +5 -50 -34
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 116 204 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.38% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 81 111 173
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £96,250 £79,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%

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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 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 8 December 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 +45 112 £55,000 +4.76% 248
UK excluding London +17 69 £42,500 +6.25% 246
Work from Home +77 54 £55,000 +4.76% 102
London +53 39 £57,500 -20.69% 31
South East +41 27 £57,500 +21.05% 69
North of England +12 16 £42,500 +13.33% 47
South West +25 15 £35,250 +2.17% 30
North West +27 8 £42,500 +2.41% 17
Midlands +25 8 £41,250 -20.67% 43
Yorkshire -5 8 £30,500 -6.11% 23
West Midlands +27 4 £35,000 -53.33% 22
East Midlands +11 4 £55,000 +8.91% 18
East of England +15 1 £68,500 +76.77% 41
Wales +1 1 £50,000 -47.37% 11
Scotland -16 1 - - 10

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 (6.03%) Anypoint
1 7 (6.03%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (8.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.17%) Shopify
3 3 (2.59%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.86%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.86%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.86%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.86%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.17%) Azure
2 30 (25.86%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (12.93%) AWS
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.03%) Boomi
5 7 (6.03%) iPaaS
5 7 (6.03%) Power Automate
5 7 (6.03%) Workato
6 6 (5.17%) SaaS
7 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.31%) GitHub
8 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.59%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.59%) Datadog
10 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) Broadband
2 1 (0.86%) DHCP
2 1 (0.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.66%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.59%) Mixpanel
3 2 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (38.79%) JIRA
2 20 (17.24%) Selenium
3 11 (9.48%) Postman
4 10 (8.62%) Cypress.io
4 10 (8.62%) TestRail
5 9 (7.76%) eCATT
6 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
7 7 (6.03%) Git
8 6 (5.17%) Charles Proxy
8 6 (5.17%) Zephyr
9 5 (4.31%) Fiddler
10 4 (3.45%) Subversion
10 4 (3.45%) TestNG
10 4 (3.45%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.59%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (2.59%) LoadRunner
11 3 (2.59%) Maven
11 3 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (1.72%) Locust
12 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 40 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (30.17%) Finance
4 20 (17.24%) Law
5 16 (13.79%) Legal
6 14 (12.07%) Marketing
7 12 (10.34%) Manufacturing
8 9 (7.76%) Banking
8 9 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (7.76%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (6.03%) Electronics
10 6 (5.17%) Back Office
11 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.59%) Military
11 3 (2.59%) Retail
12 2 (1.72%) Advertising
13 1 (0.86%) Automotive
13 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) Analyst
2 27 (23.28%) Test Analyst
3 14 (12.07%) Senior
4 13 (11.21%) Tester
5 11 (9.48%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) QA Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Automation Test Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Test Manager
8 7 (6.03%) Consultant
8 7 (6.03%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) QA Test Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Manual Tester
9 6 (5.17%) Software Tester
9 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Test Leader
10 5 (4.31%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.31%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) QA Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Software Consultant
10 5 (4.31%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) .NET
2 11 (9.48%) REST
3 9 (7.76%) Playwright
4 7 (6.03%) SOAP
5 6 (5.17%) RESTful
5 6 (5.17%) Web Services
5 6 (5.17%) XML
6 5 (4.31%) JSON
6 5 (4.31%) React
7 4 (3.45%) CSS
7 4 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (3.45%) HTML
8 3 (2.59%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (1.72%) WPF
10 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.86%) Google JAX
10 1 (0.86%) Node.js
10 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.31%) Derivative
4 5 (4.31%) Equities
4 5 (4.31%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.31%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Over-the-Top Content
6 3 (2.59%) W3C
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.62%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 5 (4.31%) Unix
4 4 (3.45%) Android
4 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (52.59%) Test Automation
2 60 (51.72%) Agile
3 45 (38.79%) Software Testing
4 39 (33.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (31.90%) Manual Testing
6 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (25.86%) DevOps
8 29 (25.00%) Test Management
8 29 (25.00%) Test Scripting
9 28 (24.14%) Test Strategy
10 26 (22.41%) User Acceptance Testing
11 25 (21.55%) End-to-End Testing
12 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
12 23 (19.83%) Integration Testing
12 23 (19.83%) Scenario Testing
13 21 (18.10%) ERP
14 20 (17.24%) SDLC
15 19 (16.38%) API Testing
15 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (15.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.31%) SQL
2 22 (18.97%) Python
3 18 (15.52%) Java
4 17 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.07%) C#
6 6 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.59%) Bash
8 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.72%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.72%) SOQL
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (24.14%) ISTQB
2 17 (14.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 16 (13.79%) Degree
4 8 (6.90%) ISEB
5 6 (5.17%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.72%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.86%) HND
9 1 (0.86%) MCSA
9 1 (0.86%) MCSE
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.86%) PhD
9 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (41.38%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) GDPR
3 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) IFRS
5 1 (0.86%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) HP ALM
2 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Nessus
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) SAP
2 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) HP
4 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 8 (6.90%) Workday
5 7 (6.03%) Dell
5 7 (6.03%) Epicor
5 7 (6.03%) IBM
5 7 (6.03%) IFS
5 7 (6.03%) Infor
5 7 (6.03%) Informatica
5 7 (6.03%) Jitterbit
5 7 (6.03%) MuleSoft
5 7 (6.03%) SnapLogic
5 7 (6.03%) Software AG
5 7 (6.03%) Talend
5 7 (6.03%) TIBCO
6 6 (5.17%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.45%) Adobe
7 4 (3.45%) Guidewire