Regression Testing Jobs

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 593 483
Rank change year-on-year +59 -110 +23
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 179 314 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.37% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 111 225 262
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,347 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,375 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,600
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.94% +10.74%

All Process and 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 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 17 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 8 May 2025. 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 +93 167 £47,500 -9.52% 228
UK excluding London +73 121 £45,000 -10.00% 154
Work from Home +121 86 £47,250 -10.00% 106
London +94 52 £65,000 +23.81% 117
South East +99 48 £50,000 -13.04% 55
North of England +58 26 £47,000 +17.50% 33
Midlands +40 21 £41,500 -17.00% 15
North West +12 17 £47,000 +18.99% 23
South West +114 16 £34,500 -37.27% 12
West Midlands +32 15 £40,500 -19.00% 10
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 - 5
North East +54 5 £35,000 -9.09% 5
Yorkshire +37 4 £42,500 - 8
Scotland +70 3 £45,000 +16.88% 8
Wales +35 3 £68,500 +5.38% 11
East of England +32 3 £62,500 +37.06% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Simulink
2 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.88%) Azure
2 21 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (8.94%) AWS
4 10 (5.59%) GCP
5 8 (4.47%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.91%) OCI
7 5 (2.79%) GitHub
8 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.68%) SaaS
10 2 (1.12%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.12%) Slack
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (0.56%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (0.56%) mabl
11 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.03%) MySQL
2 6 (3.35%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.35%) Power BI
3 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.23%) Big Data
4 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.68%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.56%) GIS
7 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (20.11%) Selenium
2 34 (18.99%) Git
3 18 (10.06%) JIRA
4 16 (8.94%) Cypress.io
5 14 (7.82%) SpecFlow
6 13 (7.26%) Appium
7 12 (6.70%) Postman
8 7 (3.91%) Jenkins
8 7 (3.91%) JMeter
9 6 (3.35%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.35%) JUnit
9 6 (3.35%) TestComplete
9 6 (3.35%) TestRail
9 6 (3.35%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.79%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.23%) GitLab
11 4 (2.23%) TestNG
12 3 (1.68%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.12%) HP UFT
General
1 45 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.64%) Finance
4 17 (9.50%) Aerospace
5 9 (5.03%) Law
6 8 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.91%) Banking
7 7 (3.91%) Games
8 4 (2.23%) Aviation
8 4 (2.23%) Military
9 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.68%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.12%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (18.99%) Senior
2 33 (18.44%) Analyst
3 30 (16.76%) Test Engineer
4 19 (10.61%) Software Test Engineer
5 18 (10.06%) Developer
6 16 (8.94%) QA Engineer
7 15 (8.38%) Test Analyst
8 11 (6.15%) Tester
9 10 (5.59%) Consultant
9 10 (5.59%) QA Analyst
10 9 (5.03%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Lead
12 7 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Release Manager
12 7 (3.91%) Software QA Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Software Tester
13 6 (3.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.26%) Qt
2 12 (6.70%) .NET
3 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
4 10 (5.59%) REST
5 8 (4.47%) CSS
5 8 (4.47%) Gherkin
5 8 (4.47%) HTML
5 8 (4.47%) Playwright
5 8 (4.47%) React
6 7 (3.91%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.35%) jQuery
7 6 (3.35%) LAMP
7 6 (3.35%) Vue
8 5 (2.79%) XML
9 4 (2.23%) Dask
9 4 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.23%) Kafka
9 4 (2.23%) Polars
9 4 (2.23%) RESTful
9 4 (2.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.70%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.03%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.91%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.23%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.23%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.68%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Windows
2 15 (8.38%) Linux
3 11 (6.15%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.91%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.10%) Test Automation
2 79 (44.13%) Software Testing
3 55 (30.73%) Agile
4 53 (29.61%) Manual Testing
5 47 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (22.91%) Test Strategy
7 39 (21.79%) Test Scripting
8 35 (19.55%) DevOps
9 33 (18.44%) SDLC
10 30 (16.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (14.53%) Software Engineering
12 25 (13.97%) Test Management
13 21 (11.73%) API Testing
14 20 (11.17%) Performance Testing
15 19 (10.61%) System Testing
15 19 (10.61%) Validation
16 18 (10.06%) Exploratory Testing
16 18 (10.06%) Integration Testing
17 17 (9.50%) CI/CD
18 16 (8.94%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.37%) SQL
2 43 (24.02%) Python
3 35 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.08%) C#
5 22 (12.29%) Java
6 16 (8.94%) C++
7 14 (7.82%) C
8 9 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.91%) PHP
10 4 (2.23%) Go
10 4 (2.23%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.56%) Bash
12 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.56%) R
12 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.85%) ISTQB
2 21 (11.73%) Degree
3 7 (3.91%) HNC
3 7 (3.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (3.91%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.23%) ISEB
5 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CSQA
7 1 (0.56%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (37.99%) QA
2 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) MiFID
5 1 (0.56%) Basel III
5 1 (0.56%) EMIR
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) PSD2
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.68%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) SAP
3 8 (4.47%) Oracle
4 4 (2.23%) Databricks
5 3 (1.68%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.68%) Twitter
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.12%) Sun
7 1 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.56%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.56%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.56%) UiPath