Regression Testing Job Trends

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Regression Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	568	546	531
Rank change year-on-year	-22	-15	-42
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing	280	121	222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.23%	0.25%	0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.32%	0.28%	0.39%
Number of salaries quoted	175	75	124
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£30,800	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£40,000	£37,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£55,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	+4.76%	+5.00%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£63,750	£73,438
90^th Percentile	£93,000	£75,000	£100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£52,500	£52,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	-	+31.25%	-13.04%

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	88,786	43,536	56,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.55%	88.40%	82.37%
Number of salaries quoted	60,234	24,785	30,358
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,854	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,500	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.89%	+1.89%

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 Salary Trend

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 October 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 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-11	253	£57,500	+4.26%	333
UK excluding London	-42	181	£52,500	-	198
Work from Home	-29	82	£50,000	-9.09%	129
London	-44	79	£72,000	+23.61%	142
North of England	-46	43	£50,000	+17.65%	41
Midlands	-33	38	£59,250	+69.29%	28
South East	-55	37	£57,500	-14.81%	58
South West	-55	31	£43,250	+8.13%	16
West Midlands	-19	30	£60,000	+71.43%	19
East of England	-19	21	£38,750	-40.84%	26
North West	-21	19	£60,000	+14.29%	18
North East	-52	13	£50,000	-9.09%	8
Yorkshire	-31	11	£52,500	+72.13%	15
Scotland	+7	9	£56,250	+2.27%	14
East Midlands	-35	8	£51,250	+36.67%	9
Wales	-67	2	£52,500	-4.55%	4

Regression Testing Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, job vacancies citing Regression Testing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Regression Testing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Test Automation	57.9%	162
2	QA	49.6%	139
3	Agile	48.9%	137
4	Problem-Solving	42.9%	120
5	Continuous Improvement	38.9%	109
6	Validation	36.8%	103
7	Software Testing	33.6%	94
8	CI/CD	32.5%	91
9	Azure	27.5%	77
10	User Acceptance Testing	23.2%	65
11	SDLC	22.5%	63
12	DevOps	22.1%	62
13	SQL	21.8%	61
14	Degree	19.6%	55
15	Selenium	19.3%	54
15	Test Strategy	19.3%	54
17	Manual Testing	18.6%	52
18	Python	18.2%	51
18	Security Cleared	18.2%	51
20	Defect Management	17.1%	48
21	Azure DevOps	16.8%	47
21	Playwright	16.8%	47
23	JavaScript	15.7%	44
23	REST	15.7%	44
25	Code Quality	15.4%	43
25	Cypress.io	15.4%	43
25	End-to-End Testing	15.4%	43
25	JIRA	15.4%	43
29	Test Scripting	15.0%	42
30	Java	14.6%	41

Regression Testing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Test Automation	57.9%	162
2	Agile	48.9%	137
3	Problem-Solving	42.9%	120
4	Continuous Improvement	38.9%	109
5	Validation	36.8%	103
6	Software Testing	33.6%	94
7	CI/CD	32.5%	91
8	User Acceptance Testing	23.2%	65
9	SDLC	22.5%	63
10	DevOps	22.1%	62
11	Test Strategy	19.3%	54
12	Manual Testing	18.6%	52
13	Defect Management	17.1%	48
14	Code Quality	15.4%	43
14	End-to-End Testing	15.4%	43
16	Test Scripting	15.0%	42
17	Scrum	14.6%	41
18	AI	12.5%	35
18	Functional Testing	12.5%	35
18	Software Engineering	12.5%	35