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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 490 575
Rank change year-on-year -27 +85 -96
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 184 153 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 116 101 201
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% -6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £86,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.45%

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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -7 161 £54,250 +15.43% 110
UK excluding London -21 121 £47,500 +11.76% 75
Work from Home +14 64 £55,000 +17.02% 48
London +7 49 £57,500 -28.13% 46
South East 0 36 £51,250 +7.89% 23
South West -16 27 £47,500 +37.68% 12
North of England -48 20 £42,500 -9.57% 23
Midlands -25 18 £55,000 +29.41% 8
North West -18 15 £42,500 -9.57% 17
Scotland -10 12 - - 5
East Midlands -33 10 £55,000 +22.22% 2
West Midlands -9 8 £55,125 +36.11% 6
East of England -13 6 £48,750 +21.88% 5
Yorkshire -44 4 £26,000 -16.45% 2
Wales -19 2 £52,500 -23.36% 3
North East -22 1 £55,000 +61.76% 4

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 6 (3.26%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.63%) CMS
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (8.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.26%) Shopify
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.54%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.54%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.26%) Azure
2 49 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (9.78%) AWS
5 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.98%) SaaS
7 6 (3.26%) Boomi
7 6 (3.26%) iPaaS
7 6 (3.26%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.26%) Workato
8 5 (2.72%) GCP
9 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.09%) OCI
11 2 (1.09%) Serverless
11 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.54%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (0.54%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.54%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.54%) DHCP
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.15%) Power BI
3 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (22.28%) JIRA
2 29 (15.76%) Selenium
3 18 (9.78%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.43%) TestRail
5 9 (4.89%) eCATT
6 8 (4.35%) Subversion
7 7 (3.80%) Git
8 6 (3.26%) Postman
8 6 (3.26%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.72%) SpecFlow
9 5 (2.72%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.63%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (1.63%) TestDirector
11 2 (1.09%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.09%) GitLab
11 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.54%) Gatling
General
1 75 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.17%) Finance
3 41 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.61%) Billing
4 14 (7.61%) Law
5 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.52%) Banking
7 11 (5.98%) Marketing
7 11 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.35%) Electronics
10 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.80%) Advertising
11 7 (3.80%) Back Office
12 6 (3.26%) Legal
13 5 (2.72%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
14 4 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (32.07%) Analyst
2 33 (17.93%) Lead
3 24 (13.04%) Test Analyst
4 17 (9.24%) Tester
5 16 (8.70%) QA Leader
6 14 (7.61%) QA Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Test Leader
7 13 (7.07%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.07%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Junior
7 13 (7.07%) Support Analyst
8 12 (6.52%) Senior
9 11 (5.98%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.89%) Automation Test Analyst
11 9 (4.89%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) QA Analyst
12 8 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.80%) Senior Technical Analyst
13 7 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) Playwright
2 16 (8.70%) REST
3 14 (7.61%) XML
4 13 (7.07%) .NET
5 10 (5.43%) JSON
6 7 (3.80%) SOAP
7 6 (3.26%) CSS
7 6 (3.26%) HTML
7 6 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.26%) React
7 6 (3.26%) Visualforce
7 6 (3.26%) Web Services
8 5 (2.72%) RESTful
9 4 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.09%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.09%) Middleware
10 2 (1.09%) Node.js
10 2 (1.09%) WPF
11 1 (0.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.96%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.26%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.72%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.17%) Derivative
7 4 (2.17%) Equities
7 4 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.52%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 6 (3.26%) Android
3 6 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.26%) Test Automation
2 79 (42.93%) Agile
3 56 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (29.89%) Software Testing
5 54 (29.35%) Manual Testing
5 54 (29.35%) User Acceptance Testing
6 51 (27.72%) DevOps
7 49 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (21.74%) Test Scripting
9 37 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 32 (17.39%) SDLC
11 29 (15.76%) ERP
11 29 (15.76%) Validation
12 28 (15.22%) Test Management
13 26 (14.13%) API Testing
14 25 (13.59%) Waterfall
15 24 (13.04%) Customer Service
15 24 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.37%) SQL
2 25 (13.59%) Python
3 22 (11.96%) Java
4 17 (9.24%) C#
5 13 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.26%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.72%) Bash
8 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.72%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.17%) Ruby
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) SOQL
10 2 (1.09%) SOSL
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (17.39%) Degree
2 23 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 16 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (6.52%) HND
4 12 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.80%) ISEB
6 5 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.17%) BC Cleared
7 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.63%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.54%) ACCA
10 1 (0.54%) CIMA
10 1 (0.54%) MCSA
10 1 (0.54%) MCSE
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (37.50%) QA
2 26 (14.13%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.52%) SLA
4 8 (4.35%) GDPR
5 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.17%) IFRS
5 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.63%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.63%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) GAAP
7 1 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Firmware
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.09%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.89%) HP ALM
3 5 (2.72%) Terraform
4 3 (1.63%) Ansible
5 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 2 (1.09%) Nessus
5 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.09%) SCCM
5 2 (1.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (13.59%) SAP
2 23 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.70%) Oracle
4 12 (6.52%) Adobe
4 12 (6.52%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.52%) Nintex
5 9 (4.89%) HP
5 9 (4.89%) IFS
6 8 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.26%) Dell
7 6 (3.26%) Epicor
7 6 (3.26%) Infor
7 6 (3.26%) Informatica
7 6 (3.26%) Jitterbit
7 6 (3.26%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.26%) SnapLogic
7 6 (3.26%) Software AG
7 6 (3.26%) Talend
7 6 (3.26%) TIBCO
7 6 (3.26%) Workday