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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 536 533
Rank change year-on-year -47 -3 -42
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 226 133 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 139 79 156
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £40,775 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,000 £64,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% +0.53%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
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 15 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 15 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 -36 205 £52,500 -4.55% 345
UK excluding London -25 155 £51,250 -2.38% 190
Work from Home -37 71 £47,500 -12.44% 137
London -36 57 £70,000 +16.67% 180
South East -29 44 £52,500 -22.22% 48
North of England -42 34 £50,000 +15.61% 33
Midlands -26 29 £52,500 +50.00% 22
South West -64 27 £42,500 +6.25% 25
West Midlands -19 23 £50,625 +44.64% 17
North West -13 15 £46,750 -15.00% 21
East of England -16 13 £37,500 -40.00% 34
Yorkshire -42 10 £52,500 +72.13% 7
North East -56 9 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Scotland +5 7 £62,500 +13.64% 15
East Midlands -25 6 £70,000 +86.67% 4
Wales -71 2 £72,500 +20.83% 4

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 5 (2.21%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.44%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.54%) Simulink
3 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.77%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.30%) Azure
2 44 (19.47%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.16%) AWS
4 19 (8.41%) GCP
5 14 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.19%) SaaS
6 12 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.87%) Serverless
8 7 (3.10%) BrowserStack
8 7 (3.10%) GitHub
8 7 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.10%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.88%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.54%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) GIS
5 1 (0.44%) Metadata
5 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.44%) Power Query
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 40 (17.70%) JIRA
2 35 (15.49%) Selenium
3 31 (13.72%) Git
4 27 (11.95%) Cypress.io
5 22 (9.73%) GitLab
6 20 (8.85%) Eclipse
7 17 (7.52%) Jenkins
8 15 (6.64%) Postman
9 12 (5.31%) JMeter
9 12 (5.31%) REST Assured
9 12 (5.31%) Zephyr
10 9 (3.98%) Subversion
11 8 (3.54%) TestRail
12 7 (3.10%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.65%) JUnit
14 5 (2.21%) Gatling
15 4 (1.77%) Appium
16 3 (1.33%) Eclipse RCP
16 3 (1.33%) Ranorex
16 3 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (41.15%) Social Skills
2 83 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (26.99%) Finance
4 22 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.08%) Electronics
7 15 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.64%) Retail
8 8 (3.54%) Marketing
9 7 (3.10%) Law
9 7 (3.10%) Legal
9 7 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.65%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.77%) Billing
12 3 (1.33%) Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (18.14%) Lead
2 38 (16.81%) Analyst
2 38 (16.81%) Senior
2 38 (16.81%) Test Engineer
3 37 (16.37%) QA Engineer
4 26 (11.50%) Tester
5 14 (6.19%) Developer
6 13 (5.75%) QA Leader
6 13 (5.75%) Test Analyst
7 11 (4.87%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.87%) Junior
7 11 (4.87%) QA Tester
7 11 (4.87%) Senior QA Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) Software Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) Test Leader
9 8 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Technical Support
9 8 (3.54%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.93%) Playwright
2 22 (9.73%) REST
3 15 (6.64%) RESTful
4 14 (6.19%) React
5 11 (4.87%) CSS
5 11 (4.87%) HTML
6 9 (3.98%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (3.98%) JSON
6 9 (3.98%) Struts
6 9 (3.98%) Web Services
7 8 (3.54%) .NET
8 7 (3.10%) Node.js
8 7 (3.10%) XML
9 6 (2.65%) Terraform
10 5 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.77%) React Native
11 4 (1.77%) Swagger
12 3 (1.33%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.33%) OSGi
12 3 (1.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.62%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.54%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.10%) SCADA
6 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.33%) Life Science
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.88%) CMDB
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.41%) Linux
2 17 (7.52%) Android
3 15 (6.64%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.75%) Windows
5 9 (3.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (57.52%) Test Automation
2 118 (52.21%) Agile
3 100 (44.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 94 (41.59%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (38.94%) Validation
6 81 (35.84%) Software Testing
7 69 (30.53%) CI/CD
8 58 (25.66%) DevOps
9 57 (25.22%) SDLC
10 53 (23.45%) User Acceptance Testing
11 48 (21.24%) Test Strategy
12 45 (19.91%) Manual Testing
13 44 (19.47%) Defect Management
14 40 (17.70%) Code Quality
15 39 (17.26%) Scrum
16 35 (15.49%) Test Scripting
17 33 (14.60%) Mentoring
18 31 (13.72%) Exploratory Testing
19 29 (12.83%) Acceptance Criteria
20 28 (12.39%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.24%) SQL
2 39 (17.26%) Java
3 34 (15.04%) Python
4 29 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.31%) C#
5 12 (5.31%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.98%) C++
6 9 (3.98%) Perl
7 8 (3.54%) C
7 8 (3.54%) Embedded C
7 8 (3.54%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.21%) Groovy
9 4 (1.77%) Bash
9 4 (1.77%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.77%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.44%) ABAP
11 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.44%) Go
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (22.12%) Degree
2 28 (12.39%) ISTQB
3 27 (11.95%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.52%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.54%) HNC
5 8 (3.54%) HND
6 6 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.21%) AAT
8 4 (1.77%) OCA
8 4 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.33%) ISEB
9 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.88%) ACCA
10 2 (0.88%) CIMA
10 2 (0.88%) CSQA
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (50.88%) QA
2 20 (8.85%) Data Quality
3 14 (6.19%) GDPR
4 12 (5.31%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.65%) WCAG
6 5 (2.21%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (7.08%) Docker
2 8 (3.54%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.54%) Grafana
3 5 (2.21%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Kibana
5 2 (0.88%) logstash
5 2 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.75%) Oracle
3 9 (3.98%) SAP
4 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.54%) Workday
5 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.21%) Google
6 5 (2.21%) IFS
6 5 (2.21%) Intel
7 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.88%) Databricks
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Informatica
7 2 (0.88%) Intapp
8 1 (0.44%) Callidus
8 1 (0.44%) Concur
8 1 (0.44%) Conga
8 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.44%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.44%) Perfecto Mobile