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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 500 586
Rank change year-on-year -32 +86 -101
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 232 175 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 142 107 227
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £38,924
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%

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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -17 200 £50,000 -4.76% 96
UK excluding London -33 153 £47,500 - 74
Work from Home -14 79 £51,250 +7.89% 42
London -12 60 £57,500 -8.00% 40
South East -39 44 £46,250 -11.90% 27
North of England -37 31 £41,000 -12.77% 11
South West -40 31 £47,500 +18.75% 14
North West -3 22 £41,000 -12.77% 8
Midlands -24 19 £53,125 +25.00% 9
Scotland +14 13 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East of England -4 13 £37,500 -40.00% 5
West Midlands -23 10 £50,000 +20.48% 4
East Midlands -23 9 £70,000 +55.56% 5
Yorkshire -32 5 £70,000 +64.71% 2
North East -47 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Wales -48 3 £72,500 +12.84% 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 5 (2.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.88%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.86%) Simulink
6 1 (0.43%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.86%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.64%) Azure
2 60 (25.86%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (15.09%) AWS
4 17 (7.33%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.03%) GCP
5 14 (6.03%) SaaS
6 12 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.31%) Serverless
8 9 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.59%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.86%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (0.86%) HTTP
1 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.74%) Power BI
2 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.43%) GIS
5 1 (0.43%) Metadata
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (18.97%) JIRA
2 40 (17.24%) Selenium
3 30 (12.93%) Git
4 26 (11.21%) Cypress.io
5 16 (6.90%) Jenkins
6 14 (6.03%) GitLab
7 12 (5.17%) Postman
7 12 (5.17%) Zephyr
8 10 (4.31%) Eclipse
8 10 (4.31%) JMeter
8 10 (4.31%) Subversion
9 8 (3.45%) TestRail
9 8 (3.45%) WebDriver
10 7 (3.02%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.02%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.59%) JUnit
11 6 (2.59%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.29%) Appium
12 3 (1.29%) Maven
12 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (44.40%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.59%) Finance
3 60 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.17%) Billing
6 12 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.45%) Marketing
8 8 (3.45%) Retail
9 7 (3.02%) Banking
9 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.59%) Advertising
10 6 (2.59%) Electronics
11 5 (2.16%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (2.16%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.16%) Legal
12 3 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (20.26%) Lead
2 43 (18.53%) Analyst
3 31 (13.36%) Tester
4 28 (12.07%) Senior
5 25 (10.78%) QA Engineer
6 22 (9.48%) QA Leader
7 20 (8.62%) Junior
8 19 (8.19%) Test Engineer
9 18 (7.76%) Test Leader
10 16 (6.90%) Developer
11 14 (6.03%) Test Analyst
12 12 (5.17%) QA Tester
13 11 (4.74%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.74%) Support Analyst
14 10 (4.31%) Junior Developer
15 9 (3.88%) Automation Tester
15 9 (3.88%) Software Engineer
16 8 (3.45%) Support Engineer
16 8 (3.45%) Technical Engineer
16 8 (3.45%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.10%) Playwright
2 16 (6.90%) REST
3 15 (6.47%) .NET
4 13 (5.60%) RESTful
5 12 (5.17%) React
6 10 (4.31%) XML
7 8 (3.45%) J2EE
7 8 (3.45%) Struts
7 8 (3.45%) Web Services
8 7 (3.02%) JSON
9 6 (2.59%) CSS
9 6 (2.59%) HTML
9 6 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (2.59%) Visualforce
10 4 (1.72%) Node.js
10 4 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (1.29%) OAuth
11 3 (1.29%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.29%) SOAP
11 3 (1.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.64%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.16%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.86%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.86%) SCADA
9 2 (0.86%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.43%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Linux
2 11 (4.74%) Windows
3 8 (3.45%) Unix
4 6 (2.59%) Android
4 6 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.72%) Test Automation
2 103 (44.40%) Agile
3 92 (39.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (32.76%) DevOps
5 74 (31.90%) Software Testing
6 70 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (29.74%) User Acceptance Testing
8 65 (28.02%) CI/CD
8 65 (28.02%) Validation
9 56 (24.14%) SDLC
10 53 (22.84%) Manual Testing
11 45 (19.40%) Test Strategy
12 42 (18.10%) Mentoring
13 37 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (14.66%) Scrum
14 34 (14.66%) Test Scripting
15 33 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
16 31 (13.36%) ERP
17 28 (12.07%) API Testing
17 28 (12.07%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.84%) SQL
2 37 (15.95%) Java
3 33 (14.22%) Python
4 21 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.19%) C#
6 10 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.45%) Perl
8 7 (3.02%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.59%) C++
10 5 (2.16%) Groovy
10 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.72%) Bash
11 4 (1.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.86%) Go
12 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.86%) SOQL
12 2 (0.86%) SOSL
13 1 (0.43%) ABAP
13 1 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (21.98%) Degree
2 28 (12.07%) ISTQB
3 17 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.03%) HND
6 11 (4.74%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.45%) HNC
8 6 (2.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (2.16%) AAT
10 4 (1.72%) ISEB
11 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.86%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.86%) CSQA
12 2 (0.86%) OCA
12 2 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.43%) CIMA
13 1 (0.43%) CISSP
13 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (46.12%) QA
2 22 (9.48%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.03%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.45%) GDPR
5 6 (2.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.29%) IFRS
6 3 (1.29%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.29%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.29%) WCAG
7 2 (0.86%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.43%) GAAP
8 1 (0.43%) MiFID
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (6.90%) Docker
2 6 (2.59%) Firmware
3 3 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.86%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.59%) Ansible
2 6 (2.59%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) Grafana
3 3 (1.29%) Kibana
4 2 (0.86%) logstash
4 2 (0.86%) Packer
4 2 (0.86%) SCCM
4 2 (0.86%) SCOM
5 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.03%) Oracle
2 14 (6.03%) SAP
3 12 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.45%) IFS
5 7 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.59%) Adobe
6 6 (2.59%) Freshdesk
6 6 (2.59%) Nintex
7 4 (1.72%) Workday
8 3 (1.29%) Intel
8 3 (1.29%) VMware
9 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.86%) Cisco
9 2 (0.86%) Databricks
9 2 (0.86%) IBM
9 2 (0.86%) Intapp
9 2 (0.86%) Juniper
9 2 (0.86%) McAfee
10 1 (0.43%) Perfecto Mobile