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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 508 558
Rank change year-on-year +8 +50 -94
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 175 164 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 116 96 202
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £36,625 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,625 £64,688
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £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 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,900 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 3 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 3 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 +5 153 £55,000 +15.79% 88
UK excluding London -10 114 £47,500 +11.76% 60
Work from Home +28 63 £55,000 +17.02% 38
London +31 46 £57,500 -28.13% 35
South East -11 33 £52,500 +10.53% 18
South West -8 27 £40,000 +15.94% 6
North of England -45 18 £42,500 -9.57% 13
Midlands -20 17 £55,000 +29.41% 8
North West -4 13 £42,500 -9.57% 10
Scotland -4 12 - - 1
East Midlands -26 10 £55,000 +8.91% 3
West Midlands +12 7 £55,250 +36.42% 5
East of England +4 5 £66,750 +66.88% 15
Yorkshire -38 4 £26,000 -16.45% 2
Wales -7 2 £52,500 -
North East -18 1 £55,000 +61.76% 1

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 (4.00%) Anypoint
2 4 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.86%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.43%) Shopify
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.57%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.57%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 51 (29.14%) Azure
2 49 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.71%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.00%) AWS
6 10 (5.71%) SaaS
7 7 (4.00%) Boomi
7 7 (4.00%) iPaaS
7 7 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 7 (4.00%) Workato
8 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.29%) GCP
9 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.14%) OCI
10 2 (1.14%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.14%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.57%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.29%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.57%) Power BI
3 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) JIRA
2 27 (15.43%) Selenium
3 17 (9.71%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.14%) eCATT
4 9 (5.14%) TestRail
5 7 (4.00%) Subversion
6 5 (2.86%) Git
6 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.86%) Postman
6 5 (2.86%) SpecFlow
6 5 (2.86%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.29%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.71%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (1.71%) TestDirector
9 2 (1.14%) Fiddler
9 2 (1.14%) GitLab
9 2 (1.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.57%) Appium
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.57%) Finance
3 38 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Law
5 14 (8.00%) Billing
6 13 (7.43%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.86%) Banking
7 12 (6.86%) Marketing
8 11 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (4.00%) Back Office
11 7 (4.00%) Electronics
11 7 (4.00%) Legal
12 6 (3.43%) Advertising
13 5 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.29%) Public Sector
14 4 (2.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (33.14%) Analyst
2 30 (17.14%) Lead
3 23 (13.14%) Test Analyst
4 17 (9.71%) Tester
5 15 (8.57%) QA Leader
6 14 (8.00%) QA Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.43%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (7.43%) Senior
7 13 (7.43%) Support Analyst
7 13 (7.43%) Test Leader
8 12 (6.86%) Junior
9 11 (6.29%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (5.14%) Automation Test Analyst
12 8 (4.57%) QA Analyst
12 8 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
13 7 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.57%) Playwright
2 15 (8.57%) REST
3 14 (8.00%) XML
4 11 (6.29%) .NET
5 10 (5.71%) JSON
6 6 (3.43%) CSS
6 6 (3.43%) HTML
6 6 (3.43%) React
6 6 (3.43%) SOAP
6 6 (3.43%) Web Services
7 5 (2.86%) RESTful
8 4 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.71%) Visualforce
10 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.14%) Node.js
10 2 (1.14%) WPF
11 1 (0.57%) Middleware
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.43%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.29%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.43%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.29%) Derivative
7 4 (2.29%) Equities
7 4 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.29%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.86%) Linux
2 9 (5.14%) Windows
3 6 (3.43%) Android
3 6 (3.43%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.86%) Unix
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.86%) Test Automation
2 72 (41.14%) Agile
3 52 (29.71%) Manual Testing
4 51 (29.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (29.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 49 (28.00%) DevOps
6 47 (26.86%) Software Testing
7 45 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (20.00%) Test Scripting
10 29 (16.57%) ERP
11 28 (16.00%) CI/CD
12 27 (15.43%) Validation
13 26 (14.86%) Test Management
14 25 (14.29%) API Testing
14 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (13.71%) Functional Testing
16 23 (13.14%) Acceptance Criteria
16 23 (13.14%) Customer Service
16 23 (13.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.00%) SQL
2 20 (11.43%) Python
3 19 (10.86%) Java
4 16 (9.14%) C#
5 14 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.43%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.86%) Bash
7 5 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.71%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.14%) Go
9 2 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) SOQL
10 1 (0.57%) SOSL
10 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (16.00%) Degree
2 21 (12.00%) ISTQB
3 15 (8.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (6.86%) HND
5 11 (6.29%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.86%) ISEB
7 4 (2.29%) BC Cleared
7 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) ACCA
9 1 (0.57%) CIMA
9 1 (0.57%) MCSA
9 1 (0.57%) MCSE
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (36.57%) QA
2 24 (13.71%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.86%) SLA
4 9 (5.14%) GDPR
5 4 (2.29%) IFRS
5 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.71%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.71%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) GAAP
7 1 (0.57%) MiFID
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Firmware
2 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.14%) HP ALM
3 5 (2.86%) Terraform
4 3 (1.71%) Ansible
5 2 (1.14%) Grafana
5 2 (1.14%) Nessus
5 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) SCCM
6 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (14.86%) SAP
2 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.71%) Oracle
4 12 (6.86%) Adobe
4 12 (6.86%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.86%) Nintex
5 10 (5.71%) IFS
6 9 (5.14%) HP
7 7 (4.00%) Dell
7 7 (4.00%) Epicor
7 7 (4.00%) IBM
7 7 (4.00%) Infor
7 7 (4.00%) Informatica
7 7 (4.00%) Jitterbit
7 7 (4.00%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.00%) SnapLogic
7 7 (4.00%) Software AG
7 7 (4.00%) Talend
7 7 (4.00%) TIBCO
7 7 (4.00%) Workday