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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 471 571
Rank change year-on-year -49 +100 -86
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 191 157 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 126 109 215
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £38,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -1.11% -14.37%

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 63,052 38,055 78,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.14% 93.05% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38,936 22,478 58,228
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,237
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -7.94%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -35 167 £53,500 +12.63% 96
UK excluding London -50 123 £47,500 +6.74% 81
Work from Home -9 64 £55,000 +17.02% 39
London +6 56 £57,500 -17.86% 29
South East -41 31 £47,500 -2.56% 29
South West -29 27 £47,500 +37.68% 8
Midlands -40 22 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North of England -60 22 £42,500 -9.57% 19
North West -34 16 £42,500 -9.57% 11
Scotland -14 12 - - 5
West Midlands -7 11 £51,250 +26.54% 9
East Midlands -51 11 £55,000 +22.22% 1
East of England -33 7 £62,500 +56.25% 6
Yorkshire -55 5 £26,000 -19.96% 3
Wales -26 3 £55,000 -19.71% 7
North East -30 1 £55,000 +57.14% 5

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 (3.14%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.57%) CMS
2 3 (1.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (6.81%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.52%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (3.14%) Shopify
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.52%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.52%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.52%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.32%) Azure
2 43 (22.51%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.57%) AWS
4 20 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.28%) SaaS
7 7 (3.66%) iPaaS
8 6 (3.14%) Boomi
8 6 (3.14%) GCP
8 6 (3.14%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.14%) Workato
9 5 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.62%) Serverless
10 3 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.57%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.57%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.05%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) Power BI
2 14 (7.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (18.85%) JIRA
1 36 (18.85%) Selenium
2 19 (9.95%) Cypress.io
3 12 (6.28%) TestRail
4 10 (5.24%) Git
4 10 (5.24%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.19%) Postman
5 8 (4.19%) Zephyr
6 7 (3.66%) Subversion
7 6 (3.14%) SpecFlow
7 6 (3.14%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.09%) GitLab
9 3 (1.57%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.57%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.57%) TestDirector
10 2 (1.05%) JMeter
10 2 (1.05%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 83 (43.46%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Finance
3 47 (24.61%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Billing
5 14 (7.33%) Law
6 13 (6.81%) Banking
7 11 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.71%) Legal
9 8 (4.19%) Electronics
9 8 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.66%) Advertising
10 7 (3.66%) Back Office
11 5 (2.62%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.09%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.09%) Retail
13 3 (1.57%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (27.23%) Analyst
2 40 (20.94%) Lead
3 20 (10.47%) Tester
4 19 (9.95%) QA Leader
5 17 (8.90%) QA Engineer
6 16 (8.38%) Test Analyst
6 16 (8.38%) Test Leader
7 15 (7.85%) Senior
8 13 (6.81%) Applications Support
8 13 (6.81%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (6.81%) Junior
8 13 (6.81%) Support Analyst
9 11 (5.76%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.71%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) QA Analyst
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Technical Analyst
12 7 (3.66%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.85%) Playwright
2 17 (8.90%) REST
3 15 (7.85%) .NET
4 14 (7.33%) XML
5 12 (6.28%) JSON
6 7 (3.66%) SOAP
7 6 (3.14%) CSS
7 6 (3.14%) HTML
7 6 (3.14%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.14%) React
7 6 (3.14%) Visualforce
7 6 (3.14%) Web Services
8 5 (2.62%) RESTful
9 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.09%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.05%) Node.js
10 2 (1.05%) pytest
10 2 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.09%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.33%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.14%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.14%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.62%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (2.09%) Derivative
7 4 (2.09%) Equities
7 4 (2.09%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Linux
2 10 (5.24%) Windows
3 7 (3.66%) Android
3 7 (3.66%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (52.88%) Test Automation
2 86 (45.03%) Agile
3 59 (30.89%) Software Testing
4 57 (29.84%) User Acceptance Testing
5 56 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (28.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (28.80%) DevOps
7 47 (24.61%) Manual Testing
8 42 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (21.47%) CI/CD
10 37 (19.37%) SDLC
10 37 (19.37%) Validation
11 33 (17.28%) Test Scripting
12 28 (14.66%) Test Strategy
13 27 (14.14%) API Testing
13 27 (14.14%) Waterfall
14 26 (13.61%) ERP
14 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
15 25 (13.09%) Acceptance Criteria
15 25 (13.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.56%) SQL
2 28 (14.66%) Python
3 25 (13.09%) Java
4 20 (10.47%) C#
5 14 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.19%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.14%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.62%) Bash
8 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.09%) Ruby
10 3 (1.57%) Groovy
11 2 (1.05%) Go
11 2 (1.05%) Perl
11 2 (1.05%) SOQL
11 2 (1.05%) SOSL
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Degree
2 26 (13.61%) ISTQB
3 15 (7.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 14 (7.33%) HND
5 13 (6.81%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.66%) ISEB
7 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.09%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.05%) HNC
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.52%) ACCA
11 1 (0.52%) CBAP
11 1 (0.52%) CIMA
11 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (40.31%) QA
2 26 (13.61%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.28%) SLA
4 8 (4.19%) GDPR
5 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.09%) IFRS
6 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.57%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.57%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.52%) GAAP
9 1 (0.52%) MiFID
9 1 (0.52%) PMO
9 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (5.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Firmware
3 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.05%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.66%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Ansible
4 3 (1.57%) Grafana
5 2 (1.05%) Kibana
5 2 (1.05%) Nessus
5 2 (1.05%) Packer
5 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.05%) SCCM
5 2 (1.05%) SCOM
6 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) SAP
3 17 (8.90%) Oracle
4 12 (6.28%) Adobe
4 12 (6.28%) Freshdesk
4 12 (6.28%) Nintex
5 10 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.71%) IFS
7 8 (4.19%) IBM
8 7 (3.66%) Informatica
9 6 (3.14%) Dell
9 6 (3.14%) Epicor
9 6 (3.14%) Infor
9 6 (3.14%) Jitterbit
9 6 (3.14%) MuleSoft
9 6 (3.14%) SnapLogic
9 6 (3.14%) Software AG
9 6 (3.14%) Talend
9 6 (3.14%) TIBCO
9 6 (3.14%) Workday