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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 505 586
Rank change year-on-year -22 +81 -95
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 218 178 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 134 108 227
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,906 £38,500
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 £47,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% +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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 -44 187 £50,000 -4.76% 96
UK excluding London -30 147 £47,500 +0.53% 69
Work from Home -35 67 £52,500 +10.53% 52
London -27 53 £57,500 -11.54% 42
South East -28 43 £46,250 -11.90% 24
South West -45 32 £47,500 +26.67% 3
North of England -45 31 £41,000 -12.77% 16
North West +1 21 £39,250 -16.49% 12
Midlands -27 17 £53,125 +25.00% 11
Scotland +20 13 £62,500 +13.64% 8
East of England -9 9 £37,500 -40.00% 7
East Midlands -16 9 £70,000 +55.56% 7
West Midlands -29 8 £50,000 +20.48% 4
Yorkshire -35 6 £48,000 +12.94% 4
North East -54 4 £50,000 -9.09%
Wales -43 3 £72,500 +12.84%

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 (2.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.92%) Simulink
5 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.92%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.92%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.46%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 79 (36.24%) Azure
2 58 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.68%) AWS
4 17 (7.80%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.42%) SaaS
6 13 (5.96%) GCP
7 11 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.59%) Serverless
9 9 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.29%) GitHub
10 5 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.29%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.38%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.92%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.92%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (0.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.50%) Power BI
2 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.75%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) Metadata
5 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (18.35%) JIRA
2 36 (16.51%) Selenium
3 30 (13.76%) Git
4 22 (10.09%) Cypress.io
5 14 (6.42%) Jenkins
6 13 (5.96%) GitLab
7 10 (4.59%) Eclipse
7 10 (4.59%) Subversion
7 10 (4.59%) Zephyr
8 9 (4.13%) Postman
9 8 (3.67%) JMeter
9 8 (3.67%) WebDriver
10 7 (3.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.21%) REST Assured
10 7 (3.21%) TestRail
11 6 (2.75%) JUnit
11 6 (2.75%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.38%) Appium
12 3 (1.38%) Maven
12 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
General
1 97 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 60 (27.52%) Finance
3 54 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Billing
7 11 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.67%) Marketing
9 8 (3.67%) Retail
10 7 (3.21%) Banking
10 7 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.75%) Advertising
12 5 (2.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (2.29%) Legal
13 4 (1.83%) Electronics
13 4 (1.83%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.38%) Law
14 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (20.18%) Lead
2 42 (19.27%) Analyst
3 27 (12.39%) Tester
4 25 (11.47%) Senior
5 21 (9.63%) QA Leader
6 20 (9.17%) QA Engineer
7 18 (8.26%) Junior
8 16 (7.34%) Developer
8 16 (7.34%) Test Engineer
8 16 (7.34%) Test Leader
9 13 (5.96%) Test Analyst
10 11 (5.05%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.05%) QA Tester
10 11 (5.05%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.59%) Junior Developer
12 8 (3.67%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Technical Support
12 8 (3.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.43%) Playwright
2 16 (7.34%) REST
3 15 (6.88%) .NET
4 13 (5.96%) RESTful
5 12 (5.50%) React
6 8 (3.67%) J2EE
6 8 (3.67%) Struts
6 8 (3.67%) Web Services
6 8 (3.67%) XML
7 7 (3.21%) JSON
8 6 (2.75%) CSS
8 6 (2.75%) HTML
8 6 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (2.75%) Visualforce
9 4 (1.83%) Node.js
10 3 (1.38%) OAuth
10 3 (1.38%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.38%) SOAP
10 3 (1.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.67%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.29%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.92%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.46%) CAN bus
11 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Life Science
11 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.88%) Linux
2 9 (4.13%) Windows
3 8 (3.67%) Unix
4 6 (2.75%) Android
4 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 99 (45.41%) Agile
3 81 (37.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (32.11%) DevOps
5 66 (30.28%) Software Testing
6 64 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (29.36%) User Acceptance Testing
7 58 (26.61%) Validation
8 57 (26.15%) CI/CD
9 53 (24.31%) SDLC
10 45 (20.64%) Manual Testing
11 42 (19.27%) Test Strategy
12 38 (17.43%) Mentoring
12 38 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (14.68%) Scrum
14 31 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
14 31 (14.22%) Test Scripting
15 29 (13.30%) ERP
16 27 (12.39%) CRM
17 26 (11.93%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.94%) SQL
2 35 (16.06%) Java
3 31 (14.22%) Python
4 21 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.72%) C#
6 9 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.67%) Perl
8 7 (3.21%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.75%) C++
10 5 (2.29%) Groovy
11 4 (1.83%) Ruby
12 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.92%) Bash
13 2 (0.92%) Go
13 2 (0.92%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.92%) SOQL
13 2 (0.92%) SOSL
14 1 (0.46%) ABAP
14 1 (0.46%) C
14 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (22.94%) Degree
2 26 (11.93%) ISTQB
3 16 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.88%) HND
4 15 (6.88%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.67%) HNC
7 6 (2.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.83%) AAT
8 4 (1.83%) ISEB
9 2 (0.92%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.92%) CSQA
9 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) CIMA
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CISSP
10 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.46%) OCA
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (44.95%) QA
2 24 (11.01%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.42%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.21%) SLA
5 5 (2.29%) GDPR
6 3 (1.38%) IFRS
6 3 (1.38%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.38%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.38%) WCAG
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) GAAP
8 1 (0.46%) MiFID
8 1 (0.46%) PMO
8 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (7.34%) Docker
2 6 (2.75%) Firmware
3 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.92%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.83%) Ansible
2 4 (1.83%) Terraform
3 3 (1.38%) Grafana
3 3 (1.38%) Kibana
4 2 (0.92%) logstash
4 2 (0.92%) Packer
4 2 (0.92%) SCCM
4 2 (0.92%) SCOM
5 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.96%) SAP
3 11 (5.05%) Oracle
3 11 (5.05%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.21%) Adobe
4 7 (3.21%) Freshdesk
4 7 (3.21%) IFS
4 7 (3.21%) Nintex
4 7 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.38%) Intel
5 3 (1.38%) VMware
5 3 (1.38%) Workday
6 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.92%) Cisco
6 2 (0.92%) Databricks
6 2 (0.92%) IBM
6 2 (0.92%) Intapp
6 2 (0.92%) Juniper
6 2 (0.92%) McAfee
7 1 (0.46%) GoCardless