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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 486 599
Rank change year-on-year -45 +113 -110
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 216 180 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.43% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 134 107 227
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,438 £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 £59,375 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,500 £73,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -

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 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -35 186 £47,500 -9.52% 61
UK excluding London -31 147 £47,500 +1.06% 48
Work from Home -19 66 £52,500 +10.53% 28
London -30 51 £57,500 -8.00% 25
South East -38 43 £46,250 -11.90% 19
South West -44 33 £47,500 +36.69% 4
North of England -35 30 £39,886 -15.14% 9
North West +4 21 £39,250 -16.49% 5
Midlands -18 18 £55,000 +29.41% 11
Scotland +12 12 £62,500 +13.64% 3
West Midlands -18 10 £51,250 +23.49% 4
East of England -8 9 £37,500 -40.00% 5
East Midlands -20 8 £70,000 +55.56% 7
Yorkshire -35 6 £48,000 +12.94% 4
North East -47 3 £44,386 -19.30% 1
Wales -47 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 (2.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.93%) Simulink
5 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.93%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
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 80 (37.04%) Azure
2 59 (27.31%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.81%) AWS
4 18 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.02%) GCP
5 13 (6.02%) SaaS
6 10 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.63%) Serverless
7 5 (2.31%) GitHub
7 5 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.85%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.39%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.39%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.39%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (0.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.02%) Power BI
2 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.93%) 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 38 (17.59%) Selenium
2 37 (17.13%) JIRA
3 29 (13.43%) Git
4 24 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 14 (6.48%) Jenkins
6 11 (5.09%) GitLab
7 10 (4.63%) Eclipse
7 10 (4.63%) Subversion
7 10 (4.63%) Zephyr
8 9 (4.17%) Postman
9 8 (3.70%) WebDriver
10 7 (3.24%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.24%) JMeter
10 7 (3.24%) REST Assured
10 7 (3.24%) TestRail
11 6 (2.78%) JUnit
11 6 (2.78%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.39%) Appium
12 3 (1.39%) Maven
12 3 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (43.52%) Social Skills
2 59 (27.31%) Finance
3 51 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.48%) Billing
4 14 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.70%) Marketing
7 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.24%) Banking
8 7 (3.24%) Retail
9 6 (2.78%) Advertising
10 5 (2.31%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (2.31%) Legal
11 4 (1.85%) Electronics
11 4 (1.85%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (22.22%) Lead
2 41 (18.98%) Analyst
3 26 (12.04%) Tester
4 23 (10.65%) Senior
5 22 (10.19%) QA Leader
6 19 (8.80%) QA Engineer
7 18 (8.33%) Junior
8 17 (7.87%) Test Leader
9 16 (7.41%) Developer
9 16 (7.41%) Test Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Test Analyst
11 11 (5.09%) Java Developer
11 11 (5.09%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.63%) Junior Developer
12 10 (4.63%) QA Tester
13 8 (3.70%) Automation Tester
13 8 (3.70%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (3.70%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.52%) Playwright
2 16 (7.41%) REST
3 15 (6.94%) .NET
4 12 (5.56%) React
4 12 (5.56%) RESTful
5 8 (3.70%) J2EE
5 8 (3.70%) Struts
5 8 (3.70%) Web Services
5 8 (3.70%) XML
6 7 (3.24%) JSON
7 6 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (2.78%) Visualforce
8 5 (2.31%) CSS
8 5 (2.31%) HTML
9 3 (1.39%) JWT
9 3 (1.39%) Node.js
9 3 (1.39%) OAuth
9 3 (1.39%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.39%) SOAP
9 3 (1.39%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.31%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.46%) CAN bus
10 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Life Science
10 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.48%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Unix
2 8 (3.70%) Windows
3 6 (2.78%) Android
3 6 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (49.54%) Test Automation
2 96 (44.44%) Agile
3 77 (35.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (32.41%) DevOps
5 65 (30.09%) Software Testing
5 65 (30.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 63 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (25.93%) CI/CD
8 53 (24.54%) SDLC
9 52 (24.07%) Validation
10 46 (21.30%) Manual Testing
11 40 (18.52%) Test Strategy
12 38 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (17.13%) Mentoring
14 32 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
15 31 (14.35%) Scrum
16 30 (13.89%) Test Scripting
17 27 (12.50%) ERP
17 27 (12.50%) Process Improvement
18 26 (12.04%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.69%) SQL
2 35 (16.20%) Java
3 30 (13.89%) Python
4 20 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.80%) C#
6 9 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.70%) Perl
8 7 (3.24%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.78%) C++
10 5 (2.31%) Groovy
11 4 (1.85%) Ruby
12 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.93%) Bash
13 2 (0.93%) Go
13 2 (0.93%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.93%) SOQL
13 2 (0.93%) SOSL
14 1 (0.46%) ABAP
14 1 (0.46%) C
14 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 51 (23.61%) Degree
2 25 (11.57%) ISTQB
3 16 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (7.41%) HND
4 13 (6.02%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.70%) HNC
5 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.39%) AAT
7 3 (1.39%) ISEB
8 2 (0.93%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) CSQA
8 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.46%) ACCA
9 1 (0.46%) CIMA
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (44.44%) QA
2 27 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 13 (6.02%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.70%) SLA
5 4 (1.85%) GDPR
6 3 (1.39%) IFRS
6 3 (1.39%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.39%) WCAG
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.93%) 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 (7.41%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) Firmware
3 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.93%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.85%) Ansible
2 4 (1.85%) Terraform
3 3 (1.39%) Kibana
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) logstash
4 2 (0.93%) Packer
4 2 (0.93%) SCCM
4 2 (0.93%) SCOM
5 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.56%) Oracle
2 12 (5.56%) SAP
3 10 (4.63%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.70%) Adobe
4 8 (3.70%) Freshdesk
4 8 (3.70%) Nintex
5 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.78%) IFS
7 3 (1.39%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco
8 2 (0.93%) Databricks
8 2 (0.93%) IBM
8 2 (0.93%) Intapp
8 2 (0.93%) Intel
8 2 (0.93%) Juniper
8 2 (0.93%) McAfee
8 2 (0.93%) Workday
9 1 (0.46%) Callidus