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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 521 581
Rank change year-on-year -14 +60 -81
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 237 170 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 147 104 194
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,600 £75,000 £77,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% -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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
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 23 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 23 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 -29 205 £50,000 -4.76% 75
UK excluding London -24 159 £48,750 +2.63% 56
Work from Home -19 85 £51,250 +5.13% 34
London -28 60 £57,500 -4.17% 25
South East -17 46 £46,250 -19.57% 15
South West -36 32 £47,500 -2.06% 11
North of England -33 31 £41,000 -12.77% 12
North West 0 21 £39,250 -16.49% 6
Midlands -22 20 £53,125 +25.00% 9
East of England +8 16 £46,250 -26.00% 3
Scotland +25 12 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East Midlands -20 10 £70,000 +55.56% 4
West Midlands -29 10 £50,625 +26.56% 5
Yorkshire -31 5 £70,000 +91.78% 5
North East -55 5 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Wales -50 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 (2.11%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.38%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Simulink
5 1 (0.42%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.29%) Azure
2 61 (25.74%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (14.77%) AWS
4 17 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (5.91%) GCP
6 12 (5.06%) SaaS
7 10 (4.22%) Serverless
8 8 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.38%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (2.11%) GitHub
9 5 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.27%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.27%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.84%) Azure App Service
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.84%) OCI
11 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.22%) Power BI
2 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.42%) GIS
6 1 (0.42%) Metadata
6 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (19.41%) JIRA
2 38 (16.03%) Selenium
3 33 (13.92%) Git
4 24 (10.13%) Cypress.io
5 19 (8.02%) GitLab
6 15 (6.33%) Jenkins
7 12 (5.06%) Zephyr
8 11 (4.64%) Eclipse
8 11 (4.64%) Postman
9 10 (4.22%) JMeter
10 9 (3.80%) Subversion
11 8 (3.38%) WebDriver
12 7 (2.95%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.95%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.95%) TestRail
13 6 (2.53%) JUnit
13 6 (2.53%) SpecFlow
14 3 (1.27%) Appium
14 3 (1.27%) Maven
14 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (45.15%) Social Skills
2 67 (28.27%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (27.85%) Finance
4 20 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.75%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.64%) Retail
8 10 (4.22%) Billing
9 8 (3.38%) Marketing
10 7 (2.95%) Banking
10 7 (2.95%) Electronics
10 7 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.53%) Advertising
11 6 (2.53%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.11%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (2.11%) Legal
13 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (18.14%) Analyst
1 43 (18.14%) Lead
2 33 (13.92%) Senior
3 29 (12.24%) QA Engineer
3 29 (12.24%) Tester
4 24 (10.13%) Test Engineer
5 20 (8.44%) Junior
5 20 (8.44%) QA Leader
6 16 (6.75%) Developer
6 16 (6.75%) Test Leader
7 13 (5.49%) Test Analyst
8 11 (4.64%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.64%) QA Tester
8 11 (4.64%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Junior Developer
9 10 (4.22%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.38%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.88%) Playwright
2 16 (6.75%) REST
3 15 (6.33%) .NET
4 13 (5.49%) RESTful
5 11 (4.64%) XML
6 10 (4.22%) React
7 8 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
7 8 (3.38%) Struts
7 8 (3.38%) Web Services
8 7 (2.95%) CSS
8 7 (2.95%) HTML
8 7 (2.95%) JSON
9 6 (2.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (2.53%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.27%) JWT
10 3 (1.27%) OAuth
10 3 (1.27%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.27%) SOAP
10 3 (1.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.06%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.38%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.95%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.11%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.27%) SCADA
8 3 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.84%) Life Science
9 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.59%) Linux
2 12 (5.06%) Windows
3 8 (3.38%) Android
3 8 (3.38%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (51.90%) Test Automation
2 107 (45.15%) Agile
3 100 (42.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 78 (32.91%) DevOps
5 77 (32.49%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (32.49%) Software Testing
6 70 (29.54%) CI/CD
7 69 (29.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 67 (28.27%) Validation
9 59 (24.89%) SDLC
10 53 (22.36%) Manual Testing
11 47 (19.83%) Mentoring
12 42 (17.72%) Test Strategy
13 36 (15.19%) Scrum
14 35 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (14.35%) Defect Management
15 34 (14.35%) Test Scripting
16 33 (13.92%) Acceptance Criteria
17 32 (13.50%) ERP
18 29 (12.24%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.94%) SQL
2 38 (16.03%) Java
3 36 (15.19%) Python
4 21 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.02%) C#
6 8 (3.38%) Perl
6 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.95%) Apex Code
7 7 (2.95%) C++
8 5 (2.11%) Bash
8 5 (2.11%) Groovy
8 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.69%) Ruby
10 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.84%) SOQL
10 2 (0.84%) SOSL
11 1 (0.42%) ABAP
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 52 (21.94%) Degree
2 29 (12.24%) ISTQB
3 21 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.33%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.49%) HND
7 8 (3.38%) HNC
8 6 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (2.11%) AAT
9 5 (2.11%) ISEB
10 4 (1.69%) OCA
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.84%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.84%) CSQA
13 1 (0.42%) ACCA
13 1 (0.42%) CIMA
13 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (45.57%) QA
2 20 (8.44%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.75%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.22%) GDPR
5 5 (2.11%) SLA
6 4 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.27%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.27%) WCAG
8 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.42%) GAAP
9 1 (0.42%) IFRS
9 1 (0.42%) MiFID
9 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (5.91%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) Firmware
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 14 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.53%) Ansible
2 6 (2.53%) Terraform
3 3 (1.27%) Grafana
3 3 (1.27%) Kibana
4 2 (0.84%) logstash
4 2 (0.84%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Oracle
2 14 (5.91%) Salesforce
2 14 (5.91%) SAP
3 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.53%) Workday
5 5 (2.11%) Adobe
5 5 (2.11%) Freshdesk
5 5 (2.11%) IFS
5 5 (2.11%) Intel
5 5 (2.11%) Nintex
6 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.84%) Databricks
6 2 (0.84%) IBM
6 2 (0.84%) Intapp
6 2 (0.84%) VMware
7 1 (0.42%) Callidus
7 1 (0.42%) Conga
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) GoldenSource